Lothian, Maryland.
Typical home $633,128 (+1.5% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,580 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,618 +2%
- $623,509$633,128 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,041 +13%
- $562,087$633,128 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lothian$3,323
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Lothian, MD rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
The Census does not count Lothian on its own, so the figures here are Anne Arundel County's. Half the county's households earn more than $124,911 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Anne Arundel County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Anne Arundel County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lothian is a community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are the coldest part of the year and summers the warmest, with a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain. Across the county, the typical resident is in the middle of their working years.
Work. Across Anne Arundel County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown a little. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, government, or shops. A fair number of people also work from home.
Things to do. The Smithsonian Institution, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the best known places to visit nearby. The Washington Monument, a protected area a longer drive away, stands on the National Mall, a park also a longer drive away.
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- 224,748households
- 39.0median age
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Anne Arundel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anne Arundel County had 293,059 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Upper Marlboro Nnw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anne Arundel County
- Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsSchool district11,336FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing6,206
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation5,460
- Anne Arundel Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,463FTE
- Keller North AmericaFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors2,462
- Baltimore Washington Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,193FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing2,091
- Anne Arundel Community CollegeTwo-year college1,717
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 405 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72,512 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Anne Arundel County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Anne Arundel County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Lothian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lothian$633,128
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lothian15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lothian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lothian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.