
Charles County · Maryland
ZIP code 20632
- Population
- 687
- Median income
- $204,071
- Median home
- $491,200
- Sales tax
- 6%
ZCTA residents
Household, past 12 months
Owner-occupied value
Maryland state rate
Quick answer
ZIP 20632 sits in Charles County, Maryland and is home to 687 people. Median household income is $204,071, the median home is worth $491,200 and median gross rent is —. 90.5% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (Maryland state rate).
- County
- Charles County
- State
- Maryland (MD)
- Area codes
- Not published
- Metro area
- Outside covered metros
FIPS 24017
477 ZIPs covered
No NANPA match for this ZIP
Rate jurisdiction used for tax
The numbers for 20632
American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.
- Population
- 687ZIP 20632 residents
- Median household income
- $204,071Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $491,200Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 39.3 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 90.5%Owner-occupied households
ZIP 20632 in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
ZIP 20632 is a very small community in Charles County, Maryland, with 687 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #374 of 477 ranked by population — larger than 21% of them. The median age here is 39.3 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 ZIP 20632 earn a median of $204,071 a year, 159.8% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 2.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 20632 is valued at $491,200, 61.9% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 90.5% 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.
With 687 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 20632 against its county rather than against national figures.
The Census withheld gross rent for ZIP 20632 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.
Reading ZIP 20632 in context
How 20632 sits inside Charles County and Maryland.
ZIP 20632 is tabulated inside Charles County, Maryland, one of 22 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 477 across Maryland. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 20632 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.
Against its own county, 20632 reports a median household income of $204,071, 64% above the $124,733 county median, and 96% above the $104,338 typical MD ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $491,200, 14% above the county figure and 22% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.
Maryland charges 6% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 20632.
Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 20632 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.
Sales tax in 20632
What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.
Maryland levies 6% statewide with no local add-ons. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.
Affordability in this ZIP
Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.
A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.
How 20632 compares
ZIP 20632 against the median ZIP in Charles County and across Maryland.
| Measure | ZIP 20632 | County median | State median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $204,071 | $124,733 | $104,338 | +96% |
| Median home value | $491,200 | $429,800 | $401,000 | +22% |
| Median gross rent | — | $1,803 | $1,600 | — |
| Population | 687 | 2,220 | 4,995 | -86% |
Medians are computed across the 22 ZIP areas in Charles County and the 477 ZIP areas in Maryland.
Statewide rank
Where this ZIP places among all 477 Maryland ZIP areas.
- Income
- #18
- Home value
- #121
- Population
- #374
richer than 96% of 428 state ZIPs
above 72% of 425 state ZIPs
larger than 22% of 477 state ZIPs
Comparable ZIP codes
Maryland ZIP areas with almost the same household income.
Nearby ZIP codes
Other ZIP codes filed under Charles County.
Adjacent ZIP Codes
Other ZIP codes in Charles County, Maryland.
ZIP 20632 questions
Common questions about this ZIP code.
- Where is ZIP code 20632?
- ZIP 20632 lies mostly in Charles County, Maryland. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
- What sales tax do I pay in 20632?
- Maryland charges 6% statewide.
- Is 20632 expensive to live in?
- Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth $491,200 — +22% against the typical Maryland ZIP.
- Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
- Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.
Keep going
Related pages for this area.
Sources & transparency
- US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates — 2019-2023 ACS 5-year — population, income, housing
- Census 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file — County assignment by largest land-area overlap
- Comptroller of Maryland — Sales tax rates and local add-ons
Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.