Walker Mill, Maryland

Area Profile

10,931 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Walker Mill, in Prince George's County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3340th of 3,904 cities measured38
Schools2086th of 2,668 cities measured29
Housing affordability2486th of 4,223 cities measured75
ClimateTop 42% of 4,223 cities measured72
Physical resilienceTop 30% of 4,182 cities measured76
Access2512th of 4,226 cities measured89
Economic stabilityTop 42% of 4,226 cities measured64
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 4.7% and the Opportunity signal places Walker Mill in the bottom 14%.

In the public schools here, 5% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 12.8 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.3 times that income.

At a glance

Population
10,931
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$88,333
Top 26% nationally
Density
3,641/sq mi
3.0 sq mi of land
Median age
42.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Prince George's County
Maryland
Metro area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Nearest major airport
BWI
24 mi · Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood Marshall
Median home value
$379,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.7% is lower than 36% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 469,294 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$24,574$88,333Top 26%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,221$41,856Top 29%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.3%Bottom 47%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute41.2 minTop 7%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.3%Top 33%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment469,294Top 15%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-5.0%Bottom 3%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 9%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force492,240Top 15%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation67.7%Top 25%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,930Top 6%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$71,060Top 8%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 45%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate4.7%Top 36%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202488k69k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $88,333 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers112,530$156,460
Business Operations Specialists, All Other76,600$104,770
Software Developers69,060$154,930
Retail Salespersons66,920$36,610
Management Analysts62,360$126,830
Fast Food and Counter Workers60,560$34,600

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Prince George's County, MD, which contains this city.

5% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 16% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
5.3%
Bottom 11% in Maryland
Reading proficiency
15.8%
Bottom 23% in Maryland
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Walker Mill MiddlePrince George's County Public Schools1,05416.23%27%
Central HighPrince George's County Public Schools75414.2
William W. Hall AcademyPrince George's County Public Schools44411.45%12%
Carmody Hills ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools38913.44%11%
Robert R. Gray ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools37510.44%6%
Bradbury Heights ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools35411.14%6%
H Winship Wheatley E C CPrince George's County Public Schools34512.3
John H. Bayne ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools33917.84%6%
Capitol Heights ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools31710.619%37%
Doswell E. Brooks ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools29110.48%12%
Seat Pleasant ElementaryPrince George's County Public Schools28410.95%5%

82.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Maryland’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

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Median rent of $1,661 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
22.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,661
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$379,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.29Top 23%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate61.1%Bottom 22%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4534,907Top 12%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$173$1,661Top 16%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$26,752$379,100Top 20%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.6%Top 27%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.8%Bottom 32%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 30°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.8 inches, including 13.7 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WASHINGTON REAGAN AP, 8.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall13.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

76 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and cold wave.

EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, lightning, heat wave, strong wind, tornado, inland flooding, hail, ice storm, coastal flooding, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Prince George's County records 8.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.9 per 100,000 residents in Prince George's County.

Homicide
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
5.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Prince George's County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Walker Mill rather than Walker Mill itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI24 mi10,503 ft
Washington Dulles IntlIAD31 mi11,500 ft
Harrisburg IntlMDT91 mi10,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
WashingtonDistrict of Columbia681,29465vs Walker Mill
ArlingtonArlington County236,254vs Walker Mill
AlexandriaAlexandria city156,97661vs Walker Mill
GermantownMontgomery County90,719vs Walker Mill
FrederickFrederick County83,39570vs Walker Mill
WaldorfCharles County82,943vs Walker Mill
Silver SpringMontgomery County81,462vs Walker Mill
CentrevilleFairfax County71,706vs Walker Mill
Dale CityPrince William County71,016vs Walker Mill
GaithersburgMontgomery County69,82568vs Walker Mill
BethesdaMontgomery County69,397vs Walker Mill
RockvilleMontgomery County67,67171vs Walker Mill

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Walker Mill

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
2074341,093$76,466