Forest Glen, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Forest Glen CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 6,650 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #175 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 67% of them. The median age here is 39.5 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 Forest Glen CDP earn a median of $127,196 a year, 62% above the national figure of $78,538 and 17% 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 6.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forest Glen CDP is valued at $604,800, 99.3% above the national figure and 52% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,553 a month, 10.5% above the national figure, or roughly $18,636 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.7% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 62.9% 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.