Census place with Imagination Stage, Round House Theatre and Suburban Hospital.
Search this neighborhoodBethesda is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland with about 70,000 residents. Its edges follow the Capital Beltway on the north, Western Avenue Northwest and MacArthur Boulevard on the south, Wisconsin Avenue and Tilbury Street on the east and Capital Beltway and Sangamore Road on the west. Parks inside it include Springfield Park, Capital Crescent Trail Special Park, Woodacres Park and McCrillis Gardens Special Park. Other places inside it include Imagination Stage, Round House Theatre, Suburban Hospital and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
By area, Bethesda is zoned mostly Residential Detached (R-60, R-90). Transit that serves it includes Metrorail Red Line (Friendship Heights station), Metrorail Red Line (Bethesda station) and Metrorail Red Line (Medical Center station). Permits issued here over the past year are mostly alterations, new construction and additions. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts police reports that carry a map location (the Montgomery County Police Department and the Rockville City, Gaithersburg City and Takoma Park departments) and traffic crashes inside the Bethesda Census-place outline. About 1 in 7 reports in the county feed, and 1 in 6 reports of serious violent crime, carries no map location, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Incidents handled by the Chevy Chase Village, campus, federal and park police do not appear. The National Institutes of Health campus inside this area is policed by federal police, so its incidents are not in the county feed. Naval Support Activity Bethesda, which includes Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, is policed by federal police, so its incidents are not in the county feed.
View safety data →Permits issued in Bethesda over the past year are mostly in the categories alterations, new construction and additions.
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View new construction →Zoning in Bethesda is mostly Residential Detached, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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