Queenstown, Maryland.
Typical home $646,124 (+3.2% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,795 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,291 +3%
- $625,833$646,124 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,693 +24%
- $522,431$646,124 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.
- Queenstown$3,391
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Queenstown, MD rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Queenstown is a town of 705 people in Queen Anne's County. Half its households earn more than $122,031 a year and half less, against $112,826 across Queen Anne's County. Unemployment in Queen Anne's County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Queen Anne's County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Queenstown is a very small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where life moves at a quiet pace. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run above the county's. Homes here are priced on the high side, and winters are cold while summers turn hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and the building trades. Across Queen Anne's County, some of the largest workplaces are Queen Anne's County Public Schools, Paul Reed Smith Guitars Limited Partnership and Food Lion. The commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and the Chester River are both a short drive away. Wye Mill, a museum, is also close by. For a longer outing, Fort McHenry is a fort a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 329households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Queen Anne's County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Queen Anne's County had 16,289 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stevensville 2SW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Queen Anne's County
- Queen Anne's County Public SchoolsSchool district1,005FTE
- Paul Reed Smith Guitars Limited PartnershipInstruments, musical, manufacturing485
- REEB - Barclay CoreWood window frames and sash manufacturing242
- Green Thumb IndustriesHydroponic crop farming225
- Food LionGrocery stores117
- TargetDiscount department stores117
- NAI Saturn EasternSupermarkets and other grocery stores113
- REEB - Barclay FinishWood window frames and sash manufacturing101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,387 people in all across the county; Queenstown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Queenstown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Queen Anne's County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Queenstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Queenstown$646,124
- 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 Queenstown 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.
- Queenstown35.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Queenstown20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Queenstown5
Zip codes with a Queenstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Queenstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.