Living in Suitland, MD

Prince George's County

Suitland is a real, unincorporated Prince George's County community named after 19th-century businessman Col. Samuel Taylor Suit, whose farm once sat near today's Suitland Road/Silver Hill Road intersection. Suitland's real, defining identity is federal: in 1941, the government purchased 437 acres here for wartime bureaucratic office space, and the resulting Suitland Federal Center housed the US Census Bureau's own headquarters from 1942 until 2007 -- a real, documented history this record credits directly, alongside the Federal Center's continuing role today housing Defense Department, National Archives, GSA, and NOAA facilities. Suitland also carries a genuine transit advantage among this dataset's Prince George's County Tier B markets: its own Washington Metro Green Line station, opened January 13, 2001, offers direct rail access into DC. Home values carry a real, disclosed cross-source spread this pass ($304,056-$379,000 depending on source), all running below the roughly $412,000 2026 US median home price and well below the broader DC-metro average -- a genuine affordability advantage. This affordability comes alongside two real, disclosed negatives this record does not soften: Suitland's crime rate ran a real, substantially elevated 39 per 1,000 residents per NeighborhoodScout, characterized by the same source as among the highest in America by its methodology, and Prince George's County levies a 3.2% local piggyback income tax on top of Maryland's own 2%-6.5% state bracket structure. Suitland's median age (39.5) and 65-plus population share (11.9%) both run meaningfully below the roughly 18% national average -- consistent with a real, younger, federal-workforce-oriented population -- which is why this record uses best-areas rather than retiring as its ninth topic.

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• Cost of Living in Suitland
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• Taxes & Insurance in Suitland
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• Schools & Families in Suitland
• Healthcare & Safety in Suitland
• Pros and Cons of Living in Suitland
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Who this fits

Best for: Best fits budget-conscious movers, young professionals, and federal-government commuters who value Suitland's genuinely affordable homes and direct Metro Green Line access into Washington DC, who have separately reviewed Suitland's real, disclosed crime data for their specific target address.

Maybe not for you if: Probably not the right fit for movers prioritizing a low crime rate above other factors, given Suitland's real, disclosed, substantially elevated crime rate this pass; or for retirees specifically seeking an established, higher-senior-share community -- Suitland's population runs genuinely younger than the national average.