Capitol Heights, Maryland.
Typical home $321,950 (-3.3% in a year), asking rent $2,012 (+9.2%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$773 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,868 -3%
- $332,818$321,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,305 +6%
- $303,645$321,950 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.
- Capitol Heights$1,690
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Capitol Heights, MD fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Capitol Heights, MD rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Capitol Heights runs $323/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $671 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,335 a month against $2,012 rent: a $1,690 mortgage payment, plus $300 property tax and $345 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Capitol Heights
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$2,335
- Renting$2,012
- Mortgage only$1,690
Property tax · $300/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 · $345/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 Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland
Capitol Heights is a town of 4,050 people in Prince George's County. Half its households earn more than $97,155 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 restaurants and hotels, then government.
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. Capitol Heights is a small town in Prince George's County, just outside Washington, D.C. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than you might expect this close to the capital, and the poverty rate is modest. Winters are cold, with a few snowfalls each year, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in government, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Prince George's County, some of the largest workplaces are Prince George's County Public Schools, the University of Maryland-College Park and the U.S. Census Bureau. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known museums and memorials are a short drive away. The Smithsonian Institution is the best known, and the National Mall is a park lined with memorials and museums that is good for a long walk. Northwest Stadium, a stadium for professional football, is also a short drive away.
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- 1,286households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%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 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 10 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natl Arboretum Dc weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prince George's County
- Prince George's County Public SchoolsSchool district18,180FTE
- University of Maryland-College ParkUniversity or college10,690
- University of Maryland Global CampusUniversity or college5,424
- The Bozzuto Group CorporateAgencies, real estate5,024
- U.s. Census BureauFederal government · Department of Commerce3,238
- MGM Resorts InternationalHotels, casino3,002
- Contemporary Services2,434
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury2,340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 484 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,514 people in all across the county; Capitol Heights has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Capitol Heights’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Capitol Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Capitol Heights$321,950
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Capitol Heights 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.
- Capitol Heights29.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Capitol Heights40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Capitol Heights16
Zip codes with a Capitol Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Capitol Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.