Herald Harbor, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Herald Harbor CDP is a small town in Maryland, with 2,507 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #261 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 43 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Herald Harbor CDP earn a median of $139,877 a year, 78.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 28% above the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 1.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Herald Harbor CDP is valued at $562,900, 85.5% above the national figure and 42% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,135 a month, 51.8% above the national figure, or roughly $25,620 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.3% 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×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 93% 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.

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.