State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Maryland
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,705 ± $8 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 51.5% ± 0.6 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 25.9% ± 0.5 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $68,200. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | $1,705 ± $8 | 51.5% | 25.9% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Maryland
- Allegany County$805 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Anne Arundel County$2,071 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Baltimore city$1,331 median gross rent · 53.7% rent burden
- Baltimore County$1,627 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Calvert County$1,759 median gross rent · 47.7% rent burden
- Caroline County$1,105 median gross rent · 55.8% rent burden
- Carroll County$1,427 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
- Cecil County$1,377 median gross rent · 49.6% rent burden
- Charles County$1,920 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Dorchester County$1,032 median gross rent · 56% rent burden
- Frederick County$1,774 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
- Garrett County$765 median gross rent · 35% rent burden
- Harford County$1,586 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Howard County$2,099 median gross rent · 47.7% rent burden
- Kent County$1,209 median gross rent · 59.6% rent burden
- Montgomery County$2,068 median gross rent · 51.6% rent burden
- Prince George's County$1,799 median gross rent · 52.9% rent burden
- Queen Anne's County$1,619 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
- Somerset County$1,013 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
- St. Mary's County$1,747 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
- Talbot County$1,256 median gross rent · 51.5% rent burden
- Washington County$1,147 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
- Wicomico County$1,327 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Worcester County$1,159 median gross rent · 55.3% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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