Montgomery County, MD · 895 properties with county records
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Barnesville 20842 is in Montgomery, MD, part of the Washington DC Metro. The typical home value in Barnesville 20842 is $736,698 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 1.1% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 56 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 1.5 months of supply, neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 20842 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Montgomery's 44 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $676,667, so 20842 sits 9% above the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 895 properties in 20842.
Headline value data through August 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 20842 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 20842 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 56 days with 1.5 months of supply.
What do homes in 20842 sell for?
The typical home value in 20842 is $736,698 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 1.1% in a year. County records put the median at about $268 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 20842?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 20842 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 20842 compare to Montgomery?
20842's typical value of $736,698 compares with a middle value of $676,667 across Montgomery's 44 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for August 2026.
Where does this 20842 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Not available for this ZIP — no rent or ownership-cost estimate published here.
Rent to price
Not available for this ZIP — no price-to-rent ratio published here.
56
/100
mixed
stable · balanced · prices rising year-over-year.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Balanced Market
DOM: 74d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)25
Valuation Gap (25%)60
Supply & Demand (20%)0
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Cancellation Rate (10%)25
Days on Market (5%)75
Balanced market in 20842. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 27.7% of median income. Median days on market: 74. Renting is approximately 229% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 39.5).
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
STABLEBALANCED
Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.
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Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Montgomery.
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
All sales (the headline median)
$383k
$199
12
100%
METRO · Frederick, MD
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 20842.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Montgomery (78.1%) and Frederick (21.9%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Montgomery (78.1%)
Frederick (21.9%)
ZIP 20842→2 counties
12-Month Direction
-2Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
42· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
29.4%
stretched
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.4% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-08
Price-to-rent
38.3x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation23
+36.5%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
1.5 mo
seller's market
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-08-31
Insurance Risk
37/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
3.5%
MD 4.4%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0845d ago
Poverty Rate
7.2%
MD 9.8%US 12.6%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Median Household Income
$128,733
MD $104,998US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
108.5
MD 108.5US 100.3
Near national averages
Home Value (ZHVI)$625,703
County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
