{"id":128,"date":"2026-10-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:00:00","slug":"marylands-best-small-towns-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/marylands-best-small-towns-to-live-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland&#8217;s Best Small Towns to Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/jimy-chavarria\/the-25-best-southern-small-towns-based-on-data-remotion-videos-dd12\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A 2022 rankings study of Southern towns under 5K residents placed 7 Maryland communities on its list, while noting some housing figures lag market conditions.<br \/>\nMaryland&#039;s highest placements:<br \/>\nBrookmont #5<br \/>\nKensington #8<br \/>\nChevy Chase View #9<br \/>\nDerwood #11<br \/>\nChevy Chase Village #13<br \/>\nMartin&#039;s Additions #17<br \/>\nChevy Chase Town #25<br \/>\nHousing values spanned widely in Maryland, from Derwood at $546.3K to Chevy Chase Village at $1.9M, with Brookmont above $1M and Kensington near $800K.<br \/>\nSeveral Maryland entries near DC blended village character with Metro access, parks, or strong schools; Chevy Chase Village also averaged zero violent crimes yearly.<br \/>\nThe study also cautioned that housing values and costs used in the ranking did not fully reflect Maryland&#039;s current market, making fresh local guidance useful.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2022 rankings study of Southern towns under 5K residents placed 7 Maryland communities on its list, while noting some housing figures lag market conditions. Maryland&#039;s highest placements: Brookmont #5 Kensington #8 Chevy Chase View #9 Derwood #11 Chevy Chase Village #13 Martin&#039;s Additions #17 Chevy Chase Town #25 Housing values spanned widely in Maryland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimychavarria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}