Forestville Rent Report: June 2026

Welcome to the Apartment List June 2026 Rent Report for Forestville, MD. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,663, after rising 0.8% last month. Prices and are now up 1.1% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Forestville rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Washington metro area and the nation as a whole.

The median rent in Forestville rose by 0.8% over the course of May, and has now increased by a total of 1.1% over the past 12 months. Forestville’s rent growth over the past year has has outpaced both state (-0.8%) and national (-1.5%) averages.

Five months into the year, rents in Forestville have risen 0.8%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to May 2025 rents had decreased 3.7%.

If we expand our view to the wider Washington metro area, the median rent is $2,161 meaning that the median price in Forestville ($1,663) is 23.0% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -2.1%, below the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 33 cities in the Washington metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Lorton is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $2,776. Glassmanor is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,505. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Landover (11.0%) while the slowest is in Annandale (-5.7%).

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