Morningside, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Morningside town is a small town in Maryland, with 1,031 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #330 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 42.7 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 Morningside town earn a median of $80,000 a year, 1.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below 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 16.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Morningside town is valued at $287,000, 5.4% below the national figure and 28% below the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,238 a month, 59.2% above the national figure, or roughly $26,856 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 82.5% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Morningside town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 33.6% of median income while homes cost only 3.6× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

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.