Friendly, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Friendly CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 11,673 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #123 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 44.2 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 Friendly CDP earn a median of $136,485 a year, 73.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 25% above 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 5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Friendly CDP is valued at $407,800, 34.4% above the national figure and 3% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,345 a month, 66.8% above the national figure, or roughly $28,140 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.6% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.3% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.