Clear Spring, Maryland.
Typical home $368,451 (+2.7% in a year). Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,032 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,641 +3%
- $358,810$368,451 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,575 +22%
- $300,876$368,451 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.
- Clear Spring$1,934
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Clear Spring, MD rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clear Spring, Washington County, Maryland
Clear Spring is a town of 372 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clear Spring is a very small town in Washington County, Maryland, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Homes here are worth more than many in the surrounding area, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than in many American towns. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn properly warm by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington County Public Schools, Meritus Medical Center and Volvo Group Trucks Operations. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a modest group of residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Fort Frederick is a fort a short drive away, and Whitetail Ski Resort is a ski area, also a short drive away, for the colder months. Sleepy Creek is a river a short drive away. For a longer outing, Antietam National Battlefield is a historic site and a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 66,110 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hagerstown Washington County Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington County Public SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services2,113
- Meritus Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,038FTE
- Volvo Group Trucks OperationsAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,512
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,058
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage674
- Hagerstown Community CollegeTwo-year college594
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage583
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,240 people in all across the county; Clear Spring has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clear Spring’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 Washington County and the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
Clear Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clear Spring$368,451
- 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.
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.
- Clear Spring11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clear Spring4
Zip codes with a Clear Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clear Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.