A typical Mount Aetna home is worth about $498,000
Up 3% in a year, 16% above the Maryland typical home.
Up 20.8% in five years
Faster than Maryland (13.5%).
Show as a table
| January | Mount Aetna | Maryland |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $304,000 | $290,000 |
| 2018 | $310,000 | $301,000 |
| 2019 | $314,000 | $310,000 |
| 2020 | $337,000 | $322,000 |
| 2021 | $375,000 | $349,000 |
| 2022 | $423,000 | $384,000 |
| 2023 | $442,000 | $398,000 |
| 2024 | $454,000 | $412,000 |
| 2025 | $475,000 | $427,000 |
| 2026 | $496,000 | $429,000 |
| August 2026 | $498,000 | $428,000 |
A typical Mount Aetna home worth $298K in September 2016 is worth about $498K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A typical home costs 3.4 years of income
Less than across Maryland (4.1 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Mount Aetna home, with $73K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,370 a month here, $1,600 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mount Aetna’s typical property tax (0.87% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,370
Renters already here pay a median of $1,153, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Hagerstown, MD HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
75% of Mount Aetna households own their home
Half of Mount Aetna’s homes were built before 1988.
Maryland: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.