District Heights, Maryland (Camp Springs, Langley Park, New Carrollton: apartments, crime, houses)

[Dennis Amoakohene]

What can you guys tell me about District Heights, Maryland and Landover, Maryland

Thanks!

[Alanboy395]

DH and Landover have the undesirable location of being inside the beltway in PG boredering SE DC. Thanks to the DC govt the thugs in SE DC are priced out of their homes and are runnin to, u guessed it, PG county. I would stay away from apts in these areas. If you need affordable housing, try camp springs, hyattsville proper, and new carrollton. affordable and pretty safe. the key is to stay outside the beltway.

[ayres1]

I live in District Heights and people tend to confuse it with Capital Heights, which has some pretty bad areas.

I wouldn't recommend living in the apartments in District Heights or Landover which can pretty crime ridden.

Most of the homes in District Heights are single family, we have our own police department and public works department. I admit we had a problem with some of the teens in the area spray painting and vandalizing cars and hanging in the streets. But the police and city officials took it very seriously and were very responsive to our concerns. The police patrol the streets and if any teens are handing in the streets they are made to clear the streets immediately.

What I like about in living in District Heights is...we are an incoporated city and because we have our own police department the response time is less, when we have a snow storm our streets are cleaned promptly. We have a code enforcement office, that patrols the city and makes sure people keep their property up to code, they toll junk cars and make sure people have proper permits for home improvement projects and that the contractors are licenced.
District Heights is an older community that is close to Shopping Malls, The Nations Capital, Public Transporation, with moderately priced homes. it is a mixed community, of whites, blacks and more recently hispanic.

Prince George's County as a whole has gotten a bad reputation for crime and violence. Any place you live these days you have to have security and be aware of what's going on around you.

[howsitgoingdude3]

Hi I have not been to PG County in 10 years and i'm honestly not sure if bad areas have become good or good areas have become bad. The rule of thumb in PG is the further away from the DC ghetto's you move (outside the beltway) typically the safer you are. However, i've been reading some of these post along with the Washington Post and that no longer seems to be the case.

District Heights, Forrestville,Oxon Hill, Landover, Kentland, Palmer Park, New Carrollton, Landover Hills, Glenarden, Camp Springs, Suitland, Cheverly, Langley Park, and Blandensburg are all extremely unsafe areas. If you want to live in these areas i hope you do not have kids and are subjecting them to some of the bad stuff that goes on ones that leave the comfort of your home. If you choose to live in one of these aformentioned places i'd highly recommend you get one of those things you put on your car steering wheel if you live in a bad neighborhood and buy bars for your windows (although most of the houses and apartments come with bar made windows there). The crime level in PG County sky rockets in these areas. I mean i've heard it said that these areas that are no less than 5 to 10 miles outside of the DC line generate more than 95% of the crime in PG County. Now when i lived in the county I was not even allowed to drive my car into these places much less hangout with anyone that lived there. Again this was 10 years ago, so from what i've heard as opposed to decreasing the public housing in that area it sounds as if they've increased it.

People in PG need to stop electing the goddam same democrates every year that fail them in keeping the county safe, providing adaquate schooling systems for their children, and ruining property values. It is down right sickening that the people there do not seem to give a dam about this stuff every year they elect the same democrates that have been running the county into the ground. Well, the hell aren't the residence of PG forcing them to send more of those people in to VA and alexandria or into MOCO? This has always been the problem for PG boarding the poor areas of DC. The sad part is it probably will never change until all those poor people are moved out and those DC ghettos are turned into luxury apartments. The Maryland can tear down on those crappy neighborhood and section at areas along the boarder and build some decent housing. The chances of this happening are slim to none!!