West Ocean City, MD population, income and ZIP codes

West Ocean City CDP is a mid-size town in Maryland, with 5,124 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #200 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 49.3 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 West Ocean City CDP earn a median of $93,776 a year, 19.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 14% 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 8.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Ocean City CDP is valued at $418,700, 38% above the national figure and 5% above the $397,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,546 a month, 10% above the national figure, or roughly $18,552 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.8% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 75.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.