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Laurel is a Maryland, U.S. city located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore and two MARC train stations, the primary one being Laurel Station, connect Laurel commuters to Washington and Baltimore - both less than 25 miles away. As of the 2000 census has Laurel's population at 19,960 and the official population estimate in 2006 for Laurel city was 21,945. Laurel is noted as being located close to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, the Fort Meade Army base, and the National Security Agency (NSA). It is close to Laurel Park Racecourse, a horse racetrack in Anne Arundel County. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are both within about 25 miles of Laurel.
REAL ESTATE
The Laurel real estate market, like other areas across the country, is currently a a buyers market with great listings and selling well. With the anticipated BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure process or military restructuring) within the next couple of years, housing in Laurel will be in big demand. Click here to view Laurel MD real estate listings.
EDUCATION
Prince George's County Public Schools serves Laurel's residents with several elementary and middle school within Laurel's city limits. Two public middle schools, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Martin Luther King Jr. Middle Schools in Prince George's County, serve the actual city of Laurel, as well as its own Laurel High, its only public high school. Areas outside Laurel city limits are included in either Prince George's County, Anne Arundel County or Howard County Public Schools. There is also an alternative middle and high school near Laurel called Oak Hill Academy. Post-secondary is minutes away to several universities including Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland-College Park.
RECREATION
Within city limits, Laurel has eleven city parks, namely Granville Gude Park, Discovery Park, Riverfront Park,and Roland B. Sweitzer Community Park, to name a few; it has three athletic fields, like Alice B. McCullough Field and the Cypress Street Athelitc Field, as well as three community centers including the Laurel Community Center and the Phelps Senior Center. Southwest of the city limits, is The Fairland Sports and Athletic Complex on the grounds of the Fairland Regional Park, offering a broad variety of activities including swimming, gymnastics, tennis, racquetball, weight training, child sitting, and massage therapy. Fairland Regional Park also includes The Gardens Ice House skating facility which offers public skating, figure skating, hockey, speed skating, and curling, basketball and lacrosse. North of the city limits has the Laurel Roller Skating Center.
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