Sykesville, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Sykesville town is a small town in Maryland, with 4,346 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #219 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 59% of them. The median age here is 34.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Sykesville town earn a median of $135,692 a year, 72.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 24% 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 3.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sykesville town is valued at $398,600, 31.4% above the national figure and within a couple of points of the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,703 a month, 21.1% above the national figure, or roughly $20,436 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.1% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.