Mount Rainier, Maryland.
Typical home $440,191 (-1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,525 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,110 -2%
- $448,301$440,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,065 -2%
- $449,255$440,191 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 Rainier$2,310
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mount Rainier, MD fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland
Mount Rainier is a city of 8,333 people in Prince George's County. Half its households earn more than $68,505 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 24% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 76% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Rainier is a small city just over the line from Washington, D.C., where most households rent their homes rather than own them, far more than is typical across the county. Household incomes run below the county's, and the people who live here are of middle age on the whole. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in professional and business services. Across Prince George's County, the largest workplaces include Prince George's County Public Schools, the University of Maryland-College Park and the U.S. Census Bureau. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of 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 of them, and the National Mall is a park running through the heart of the capital. The National Museum of Natural History is another museum within the same short drive.
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- 3,934households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 19%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, 2 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; Mount Rainier 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 Mount Rainier’s 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.
Mount Rainier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Rainier$440,191
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mount Rainier listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Rainier19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Rainier5
Zip codes with a Mount Rainier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Rainier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.