Baltimore Highlands, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Baltimore Highlands CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 8,564 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #156 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 33.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Baltimore Highlands CDP earn a median of $64,284 a year, 18.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 41% below the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 22.6% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Baltimore Highlands CDP is valued at $258,000, 15% below the national figure and 35% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,352 a month, 3.8% below the national figure, or roughly $16,224 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 52.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.