Bel Air town, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Bel Air town is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 10,616 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #130 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 41.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 town earn a median of $69,912 a year, 11% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% below 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 15.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bel Air town is valued at $297,400, 2% below the national figure and 25% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,526 a month, 8.5% above the national figure, or roughly $18,312 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.2% 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 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 58.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.