Howard County * Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metro
7.5K
Population
$134.7K
Median income
per household
$602.8K
Home value
7.6%
Poverty rate
What stands out
5 of 5 metrics better than U.S. benchmarks
Rental strain: 82.8% of renter households are rent-burdened (≥30% of income).
Median household income
$134.7K
U.S.
$81K
Per-capita income
$81.8K
U.S.
$45K
Median home value
$602.8K
U.S.
$333K
Rent-burdened renters (≥30%)
82.8%
U.S.
51.1%
Severely rent-burdened (≥50%)
9.8%
U.S.
25.9%
Rent-to-Income
12.8%
Below 30% threshold
Home-Value-to-Income
4.5×
Upper end of typical range
Share of households by income bracket (ACS).
| Income bracket | Share of households |
|---|---|
| < $50k | 17.7% |
| $50–100k | 14.8% |
| $100–200k | 36.7% |
| $200k+ | 30.8% |
Owner-occupied vs renter-occupied housing (ACS).
| Tenure | Percent |
|---|---|
| Owners | 85.0% |
| Renters | 15.0% |
5 of 6 available metrics better than U.S.
CDC PLACES modeled ZCTA-level estimates (adult prevalence).
Obesity
28.7%
U.S.
33.3%
Diabetes
12.3%
U.S.
12.0%
Current smoking
7.8%
U.S.
13.1%
3 of 3 metrics better than U.S.
100+ Mbps coverage
99.5%
U.S.
89.6%
Gigabit ready
95.6%
U.S.
46.1%
5G available
98.1%
U.S.
77.4%
Education metrics come from ACS 5-year estimates for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs).
Bachelor's degree+ (age 25+)
63.3%
U.S.
35.7%
A high share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher often correlates with higher-paying jobs and knowledge-economy industries.
ZIP-level estimates can have higher margins of error than county/state totals; treat small differences as noise.
School districts
How this ZIP compares to other ZIP codes nationwide.
5 tracts overlap this ZIP. Hover over segments to explore.
Tract 4022.01
35.1%
Tract 6030.01
26.3%
Tract 4022.02
23.5%
Tract 4025.04
14.6%
Tract 6021
0.4%
ZIP codes can span multiple congressional districts. Overlap percentages are approximate by land area and should be treated as geographic coverage, not address-level assignment.
MD-2
73.3%
MD-3
26.7%
Release schedule and upstream dates: Sources.
Derived statistics
Data accuracy & methodology
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