Bel Air South, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Bel Air South CDP is a small city in Maryland, with 57,702 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #15 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 38.2 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 Bel Air South CDP earn a median of $120,721 a year, 53.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 11% above the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 4.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bel Air South CDP is valued at $384,000, 26.6% above the national figure and 3% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,666 a month, 18.5% above the national figure, or roughly $19,992 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 82.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.