South Kensington, MD population, income and ZIP codes

South Kensington CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 8,057 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #162 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 69% 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 South Kensington CDP earn a median of $193,793 a year, 146.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 78% 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 4.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in South Kensington CDP is valued at $905,000, 198.3% above the national figure and 128% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $3,141 a month, 123.4% above the national figure, or roughly $37,692 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.4% 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 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 86.8% 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.

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.