Maryland cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Maryland, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Baltimore city".

The largest place in Maryland is Baltimore city with 577,193 residents, and the 536 places on this page hold 5,191,468 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $2,499 to $250,001, and median home values range from $47,100 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Maryland is unusually decentralised. No single centre dominates — the ten largest places together hold just 25% of the 5,191,468 residents here, and 138 separate entries clear 10,000 people. State-level averages are more representative here than in most states, because there is no outsized core pulling them. The median row holds just 2,338 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

On housing, Maryland tracks the national pattern closely: $352,100 median home value against $97,359 median income, a ratio of 3.6 versus 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $1,659 including utilities, or about 20% of median household income annually. The statewide midpoint hides real variation, though — that is what the spread below is for.

Incomes fan out sharply inside Maryland. Strip the outliers and the top-decile place still earns 3.18× the bottom-decile one ($171,969 against $54,076); include them and Travilah CDP tops the list at $250,001 and Cearfoss CDP anchors the bottom at $2,499. A single "Maryland average" is averaging across two different economies.

About one row in 8 is incomplete — 72 of 536 places have a suppressed estimate, almost all of them at the small end. Five-year estimates average responses over sixty months, so what is published is a stable baseline rather than a reading of this month's market.

How many places does Maryland have? 536 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. The legal suffix in each name is the Census description, which is how two communities can share a name.

Which Maryland row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.