Mount Aetna, Maryland.
Typical home $502,904 (+2.3% in a year). Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,397 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,355 +2%
- $491,549$502,904 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,751 +21%
- $417,153$502,904 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.
- Mount Aetna$2,640
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Mount Aetna, MD rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Aetna, Washington County, Maryland
Mount Aetna, in Washington County, had 580 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Aetna is a very small community in Washington County, Maryland, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days of the year.
Work. Residents of Mount Aetna work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and the building trades also employing many people. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington County Public Schools, Meritus Medical Center and Volvo Group Trucks Operations. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Several parks are a short drive away, including Washington Monument State Park, South Mountain State Park and Greenbrier State Park, all protected areas for walking and time outdoors. The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is also a short drive away for a quieter afternoon. Antietam National Battlefield, a historic site, is a longer drive.
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- 4%below the poverty line
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 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithsburg 2NW weather station, 5 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; Mount Aetna has one 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Aetna’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.
Mount Aetna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Aetna$502,904
- 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.
Zip codes with a Mount Aetna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Aetna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.