Chevy Chase Section Five, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Chevy Chase Section Five village is a very small community in Maryland, with 767 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #355 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 45.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Chevy Chase Section Five village earn a median of $250,001 a year, 218.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 129% above 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 1.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chevy Chase Section Five village is valued at $1,631,900, 437.9% above the national figure and 311% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 98% 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. 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.

Home values sit at 6.5× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. With 767 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chevy Chase Section Five village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Chevy Chase Section Five village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.