Cedar Heights, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Cedar Heights CDP is a small town in Maryland, with 1,748 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #291 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 30.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Cedar Heights CDP earn a median of $49,858 a year, 36.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 54% below the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cedar Heights CDP is valued at $300,400, 1% below the national figure and 24% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,764 a month, 25.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,168 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 42.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 43.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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.