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Outdoors in Greenbelt
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1935
Tractor LOC fsa.8a00523, 1935
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About Greenbelt
City in Maryland, United StatesGreenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921. Greenbelt is the first and the largest of the three experimental New Deal Greenbelt Towns, the others being Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin. Greenbelt was planned and built by the federal government as an all-White town. The cooperative community was conceived in 1935 by Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell, whose perceived collectivist ideology attracted opposition to the Greenbelt Towns project throughout its short duration. The project came into legal existence on April 8, 1935, when Congress passed the Emergency Relie…
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How Greenbelt ranks
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Housing in Greenbelt
The typical Greenbelt home is worth about $279,000, down 3.5% in a year, 35% below the Maryland typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Greenbelt
Safety Grade D-
Greenbelt reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 96% report less.
Work & commute in Greenbelt
Full picture →Most working residents leave Greenbelt for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (23%), College Park (4%) and Baltimore (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.
Health in Greenbelt
Health Grade B
Healthier than 59% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates.
Compared with Maryland
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 14 are too close to call.
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Natural hazards in Greenbelt
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 6% of U.S. communities.
Climate in Greenbelt
Full climate →Greenbelt has chilly winters and warm summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 88°, a January night drops to 26°, and about 16 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Schools in Greenbelt
All Greenbelt schools →School Grade D
The public schools Greenbelt’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 92% of Maryland’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within MD. Ratings are from neighbors.
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