Chesapeake Ranch EstatesMD
A town of 9,241.
Is Chesapeake Ranch Estates a good place to live?
Chesapeake Ranch Estates is one of the best-graded places in America: an A, 30th among Maryland's 259 graded towns. Its schools outperform 80% of the state's, the median household earns $103K, and natural-hazard risk is low. Its lowest mark, a B, is in cost of living. Chesapeake Ranch Estates’ mean commuting time is 41 minutes, above both Maryland’s towns (32 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Only 5 of Maryland’s 329 towns score lower on the outdoors. Chesapeake Ranch Estates has 1 place on the National Register.
What makes Chesapeake Ranch Estates stand out
Where Chesapeake Ranch Estates beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Chesapeake Ranch Estates for work
Where Chesapeake Ranch Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Chesapeake Ranch Estates grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Maryland), ordered by how far Chesapeake Ranch Estates is from typical.
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Moving to Chesapeake Ranch Estates: who provides what
Chesapeake Ranch Estates is unincorporated, so Calvert County and regional agencies provide most services.
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Chesapeake Ranch Estates.
Chesapeake Ranch Estates trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, sends most of its workers to California and beyond and is healthy by national standards but mid-pack in Maryland.
The biggest natural risk in Chesapeake Ranch Estates is inland flooding, at a very low overall level
On expected storm and flood damage, Chesapeake Ranch Estates sits below 88% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts just over a third of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 28% to hurricanes. One flood insurance claim has been paid locally since 1985.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For most of its workers, the job is outside Chesapeake Ranch Estates
Chesapeake Ranch Estates has 102 jobs for its 4,101 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 41 minutes, against 31.1 across Maryland.
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Chesapeake Ranch Estates rose by 36, to 102. Only 1% of working residents stay in Chesapeake Ranch Estates for work; the rest commute out. For residents locally, the share who live below the poverty line is 4.5%. The top destinations are California (8%), Prince Frederick (8%) and Washington (5%).
| Chesapeake Ranch Estates | Maryland towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 21% | 18% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4.5% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 3.2% | 8% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Chesapeake Ranch Estates are healthier than 69% of U.S. towns
Within Maryland it is less healthy than 56% of the 261 graded towns: Maryland sets a high bar. Against the 8,190 U.S. towns with household incomes like Chesapeake Ranch Estates’s, it is healthier than 51%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
38% of Chesapeake Ranch Estates adults have obesity. This Maryland town beats the Maryland average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 5. In Chesapeake Ranch Estates, two in five adults sleep under 7 hours, and 10% have diabetes.
| Chesapeake Ranch Estates | Maryland towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 36% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 12% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Chesapeake Ranch Estates | MD |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.6% | 5.8% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.7% | 3.4% |
| More binge drinkers | 17.3% | 14.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Chesapeake Ranch Estates has four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 28° and about 13 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Chesapeake Ranch Estates sells for about $357K
Homes are within reach (B for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 23 miles. At 2.3 years of the Lexington Park metro’s $126K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 97% of Maryland towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
The typical rent for Chesapeake Ranch Estates comes to $1,948 a month. The share of households in Chesapeake Ranch Estates who own their home: 93%. Homes sold in Chesapeake Ranch Estates spent a median 31 days on the market.
| Chesapeake Ranch Estates | Maryland towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 93% | 74% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,948 a month | $1,809 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
George Washington Birthplace National Monument and 13 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Chesapeake Ranch Estates. Close and well known come first.
29 mi National MonumentGeorge Washington Birthplace National Monument72K visitors a year
21 mi State parkPoint Lookout State Park
17 mi Ancient siteU-1105
7 mi MuseumPatuxent River Naval Air Museum
37 mi Ancient siteWye House
3 mi MuseumCalvert Marine MuseumPhoto credits
George Washington Birthplace National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · Point Lookout State Park: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0 · U-1105: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Patuxent River Naval Air Museum: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wye House: Historic American Buildings Survey, Public domain · Calvert Marine Museum: Sampsonsimpson20, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Chesapeake Ranch Estates
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Chesapeake Ranch Estates
About 4 of every 100 Chesapeake Ranch Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Maryland.
About Chesapeake Ranch Estates
Census-designated place in Maryland, United States
The Chesapeake Ranch Estates (CRE), also known locally as the Ranch Club, is located in Lusby, Maryland, United States, in southern Calvert County. CRE was founded in 1958 and is governed by a homeowners' association, which is officially called the "Property Owner's Association of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates" (POACRE). Today, CRE is composed of over 4,000 homes. The community is counted as a census-designated place for population statistics, with a residential population of 10,519 as of the 2010 census. At the 2000 census, the area was part of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point CDP.
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- Elevation
- 98 ft
Chesapeake Ranch Estates’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Chesapeake Ranch Estates.
| Town | MD rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake Ranch Estates | #30 | A | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Drum Point | #81 | A− | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Lusby | #13 | A+ | A− | — | A− | A− |
Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Drum Point and Lusby report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Chesapeake Ranch Estates with a neighbor →
Questions about Chesapeake Ranch Estates
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Chesapeake Ranch Estates grades A overall, better than 94% of U.S. towns and #30 of 259 in Maryland. It grades B+ for health and A− for schools.
Is Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD expensive?
The typical home is worth about $287,000, 33% below the Maryland typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.