Brandywine, Maryland.
Typical home $501,070 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $3,064 (+1.6%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,252 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,267 +0%
- $499,803$501,070 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,797 +9%
- $459,273$501,070 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.
- Brandywine$2,630
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Brandywine, MD rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brandywine, MD rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brandywine runs $570/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $641 in Jul 2025.
That is $3,634 a month against $3,064 rent: a $2,630 mortgage payment, plus $468 property tax and $536 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brandywine
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,634
- Renting$3,064
- Mortgage only$2,630
Property tax · $468/mo 1.12% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Prince Georges County, MD
Insurance & upkeep · $536/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Brandywine, Prince George's County, Maryland
Brandywine, in Prince George's County, had 10,550 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $157,587 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Prince George's County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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. Brandywine is a community where nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be older than in many places, and fewer live below the poverty line than you might expect. Typical home values and rents are both high, and winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a summer that turns hot by July.
Work. Many residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities. Within Brandywine, Costco Wholesale, Target and Wawa are among the largest workplaces. The commute is long for many people, and a fair number work from home.
Things to do. The main draws are in Washington, a longer drive away. The National Mall is a long park lined with monuments and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution is among the best known museums in the country. The Lincoln Memorial is a protected memorial site on the same stretch, also a longer drive away.
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- 4,149households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince George's County had 328,137 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oxon Hill weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brandywine
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer219
- Epic-smviIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential195
- TargetDiscount department stores157
- NAI Saturn EasternSupermarkets and other grocery stores146
- Heller Electric CoElectrical construction105
- Wawa SiteConvenience store33
- BrandywineMail and parcel delivery32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 887 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brandywine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Prince George's County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Brandywine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brandywine$501,070
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brandywine listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Brandywine31.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brandywine83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brandywine23
Zip codes with a Brandywine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brandywine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.