Hillcrest Heights, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Hillcrest Heights CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 15,670 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #92 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 41.2 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 Hillcrest Heights CDP earn a median of $77,696 a year, 1.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% below the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 11.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hillcrest Heights CDP is valued at $340,500, 12.2% above the national figure and 14% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,446 a month, 2.8% above the national figure, or roughly $17,352 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.3% 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 4.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 51.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.