Fort Meade, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Meade CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 10,477 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #133 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 27.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Fort Meade CDP earn a median of $102,886 a year, 31% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% below 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 4.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Meade CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,380 a month, 69.3% above the national figure, or roughly $28,560 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 27.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 0.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 27.2 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Fort Meade CDP 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.