Census place bordering Ashton-Sandy Spring with Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center, Marilyn J. Praisner Branch Library and Burtonsville Park.
Search this neighborhoodBurtonsville is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland with about 9,800 residents. Its edges follow Spencerville Road and Greencastle Road on the south, Columbia Pike and Parkway Drive on the east and Oak Hill Road on the west. It also borders the Ashton-Sandy Spring Census place to the north. Parks inside it include Fairland Recreational Park, Patuxent River Watershed Conservation Park, Columbia Park and Burtonsville Park. Other places inside it include Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center, Marilyn J. Praisner Branch Library and Gunpowder Golf Course.
By area, Burtonsville is zoned mostly Rural Cluster (RC), Residential Estate (RE-1, RE-2) and Residential Detached (R-200, R-90). Transit that serves it includes Ride On FLASH Silver Spring-Burtonsville. 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 Burtonsville 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. In the year to November 2026 about a third of the reports with a Burtonsville mailing address carried no map location, so the count here understates crime more than most places.
View safety data →Permits issued in Burtonsville over the past year are mostly in the categories alterations, new construction and additions.
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View new construction →Zoning in Burtonsville is mostly Rural Cluster, Residential Estate and Residential Detached, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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