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A low-key suburb of single-family homes in Bowie
When employees who work in Baltimore or Washington, D.C., tire of the bustle and relocate to the suburbs, they often look to Bowie, where subdivisions like Pointer Ridge offer a calm and convenient lifestyle. The southern Bowie neighborhood has a local elementary school within walking distance of some homes, and the Bowie Town Center shopping center is a 3-mile drive from Pointer Ridge. Locals can walk to parks with playgrounds and sports courts or drive to larger green spaces like Allen Pond Park, where they go boating or fishing. Residents live about 20 miles from the nation’s capital and 35 miles from Baltimore, Maryland’s largest city, allowing them to commute to these major metropolitan areas and return home to their low-key community in Pointer Ridge.
Many Ranch homes in Pointer Ridge benefit from cross gable roofs.
Homes in Pointer Ridge are traditionally styled.
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Ramblers and Colonial Revivals with neat landscaping
An organized suburb with peaceful, curving streets, Pointer Ridge is filled with comfortable, ranch-style and Colonial Revival homes. Properties sit on about a third of an acre of land, so grassy front lawns decorated with shrubbery, stone walkways and tall trees fill the neighborhood. “Houses are priced very well for the square footage and what you get; most are around $400,000 to $600,000, which you won’t find in areas closer to D.C.,” says Bill Franklin, a broker with Long & Foster Real Estate who’s served Bowie for decades. Constructed in the 1970s and ‘80s, Pointer Ridge’s ranches, ramblers and Colonial Revivals sometimes cost as little as $300,000, but most are priced in the $400,000 to $600,000 range.
Colonial Homes in Pointer Ridge offer plenty of space for the entire family.
Ranch homes are common along the snowy streets of Pointer Ridge.
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Sports fields, playgrounds and walking trails near Pointer Ridge
Pointer Ridge is close to popular recreational spaces, like Mitchellville South Neighborhood Park, where youth sports teams play on the soccer field and teenagers meet for pickup games on the basketball courts. There’s also a large playground with a jungle gym and several tennis courts. About 3 miles north of the neighborhood is Allen Pond Park, where locals go on afternoon strolls around the water or take their kids to the playground. The pond also has paddle boats available for rent, and fishing spots where anglers cast their lines into the water. When it’s too cold to spend time outside, there’s the Sky Zone Trampoline Park, where kids bounce from trampolines into foam pits and scramble through obstacle courses.
Mitchellville South Neighborhood Park in Bowie has a great playground for the kids to play.
Residents enjoying the waking paths at Allen Pond Park in Bowie, MD.
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Career preparation programs at Bowie High School
Kids may go to the neighborhood’s aptly named Pointer Ridge Elementary School, which has a C-plus rating from Niche. “The community is built up around the schools. A lot of parents can walk their kids to their local elementary school,” Franklin says. Students live a couple of miles south of Benjamin Tasker Middle School and Bowie High School, however. Both schools earn B-minus ratings from Niche. Bowie High offers a career pathway program where students can enroll in programs to study food and beverage management, construction and homeland security.
Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie has a student-teacher ratio of 17 to 1.
With over a 90% graduation rate, Bowie High School is above average.
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Chain restaurants and big box retailers located 3 miles from Pointer Ridge
There aren’t restaurants or stores in Pointer Ridge, but shopping centers with extensive retail and dining options are about 3 miles north of the neighborhood. Big box retailers like Walmart, Home Depot and Lowes sit along U.S. Route 301. Nearby, the Bowie Town Center mall has well-known retailers like Macy’s, Barnes & Noble, Men’s Wearhouse and Five Below. Residents can pick up groceries at Giant or Safeway. The area has a wide array of chain restaurants, including Chipotle, IHOP, Raising Cane’s, Olive Garden and First Watch. Still, there are a few family-owned restaurants like Rips Country Inn, a long-standing, rustic eatery that serves comfort food like roast beef sandwiches, cornbread and bread pudding.
Bowie Town Center has many restaurants to enjoy in Bowie.
Bowie Town Center has all the retail shopping you could want near Pointer Ridge.
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Bus lines to Metrorail stations and major highways nearby
Most of the neighborhood’s roads don’t have sidewalks, but the residential streets are quiet enough for neighborly strolls and family bike rides. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority operates bus stops in the neighborhood; route C26 heads to the Metrorail station in Downtown Largo. From there, commuters can board the Silver or Blue line to head toward Washington, D.C. Drivers can also merge onto U.S. Route 50 to make the 22-mile-trek northwest to D.C. or drive 18 miles northeast to Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore is a little under 40 miles north on Interstate 97.
The Metro bus in Bowie can take you just about anywhere.
Route 50 is just a few miles north and will take you to Annapolis or DC from Bowie.
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Crime and Safety
1 - Low Crime, 10 - High Crime
Pointer Ridge
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Homicide
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4
Sexual Assault
2
4
Assault with Weapon
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4
Robbery
2
4
Burglary
2
4
Motor Vehicle Theft
2
4
Larceny
2
4
Crime Score
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4
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Pointer Ridge Demographics and Home Trends
On average, homes in Pointer Ridge, Bowie sell after 45 days on the market compared to the national average of 53 days. The median sale price for homes in Pointer Ridge, Bowie over the last 12 months is $475,000, up 5% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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