Mays Chapel, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Mays Chapel CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 15,616 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #94 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 48.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Mays Chapel CDP earn a median of $118,462 a year, 50.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 9% 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 2.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mays Chapel CDP is valued at $447,300, 47.4% above the national figure and 13% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,768 a month, 25.7% above the national figure, or roughly $21,216 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.9% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81.4% 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.