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Baltimore County · Maryland

ZIP code 21250

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 21250 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
3,001

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
6%

Maryland state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 21250 sits in Baltimore County, Maryland and is home to 3,001 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. — of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (Maryland state rate).

County
Baltimore County

FIPS 24005

State
Maryland (MD)

477 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 21250

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
3,001ZIP 21250 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
19.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
—Owner-occupied households

ZIP 21250 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 21250 is a small town in Baltimore County, Maryland, with 3,001 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #274 of 477 ranked by population — larger than 42% of them. The median age here is 19.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 21250 earn a median of not published a year. 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 Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 21250 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 19.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for ZIP 21250 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 21250 in context

How 21250 sits inside Baltimore County and Maryland.

ZIP 21250 is tabulated inside Baltimore County, Maryland, one of 44 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 477 across Maryland. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. 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 21250 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 21250 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. 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 21250.

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 21250 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 21250

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
6%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$6Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$60Before any exemptions

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.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
—Residents below poverty line

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 21250 compares

ZIP 21250 against the median ZIP in Baltimore County and across Maryland.

MeasureZIP 21250County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$107,714$104,338—
Median home value—$435,500$401,000—
Median gross rent—$1,540$1,600—
Population3,0017,1684,995-40%

Medians are computed across the 44 ZIP areas in Baltimore County and the 477 ZIP areas in Maryland.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 477 Maryland ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 43% of 477 state ZIPs

#274

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Baltimore County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Baltimore County, Maryland.

ZIP 21250 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 21250?
ZIP 21250 lies mostly in Baltimore 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 21250?
Maryland charges 6% statewide.
Is 21250 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — 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.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 21250, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

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.