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SheetMD-CHESAPEAKE-RANCH-ESTATES-MD · Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD 9,307 pop · income 76th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Chesapeake Ranch Estates
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chesapeake Ranch Estates on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
San Sebastián… · lowest
20,112
San Sebastián… · lowest
20,112 median HH income
14.8% of the leader · rank #1
Fairfield Pla… · near
97,133
Fairfield Pla… · near
97,133 median HH income
71.4% of the leader · rank #2
Chesapeake Ra… · this city
97,139
Chesapeake Ra… · this city
97,139 median HH income
71.4% of the leader · rank #3
Nespelem Comm… · near
97,143
Nespelem Comm… · near
97,143 median HH income
71.4% of the leader · rank #4
Selma · near
97,153
Selma · near
97,153 median HH income
71.4% of the leader · rank #5
Miramar Beach · near
97,159
Miramar Beach · near
97,159 median HH income
71.4% of the leader · rank #6
Cape St. Clai… · highest
136,064
Cape St. Clai… · highest
136,064 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Chesapeake Ranch Estates on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 9,307.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Chesapeake Ranch Estates lands in the 76th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
76th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
84th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD
9,307 people live in Chesapeake Ranch Estates, Maryland - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Chesapeake Ranch Estates households earn a median of $97,139 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.7%. Home values in Chesapeake Ranch Estates run a median of $286,600, and the median resident age is 35.6 years. About 27.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Maryland carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Maryland at 105.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,657 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $255 across Maryland, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 35.7 minutes, with 71.9% driving alone and 16.4% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 60.2 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Chesapeake Ranch Estates's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chesapeake Ranch Estates, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Chesapeake Ranch Estates?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 35.7 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Chesapeake Ranch Estates?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chesapeake Ranch Estates?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Maryland, the closest population matches are Coral Hills (9,372 residents, $83,899 income); Marlboro (9,200 residents, $122,313 income); Bryans Road (9,174 residents, $117,117 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Laurens, SC (9,307 residents); Bohemia, NY (9,306 residents); Lake Norman of Catawba, NC (9,308 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income B+
$97,139
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
105.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Chesapeake Ranch Estates profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $97,139
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.8%
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
How does Chesapeake Ranch Estates compare to other US cities?
Where Chesapeake Ranch Estates sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent84% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Chesapeake Ranch Estates against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Maryland only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Maryland-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Chesapeake Ranch Estates near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chesapeake Ranch Estates ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chesapeake Ranch Estates only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#230 of 445
48th percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#312 of 450
31st percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#239 of 479
49th percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#290 of 479
39th percentile in Maryland
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Maryland only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
76th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Chesapeake Ranch Estates's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$286,60037th percentilemore affordable than 37% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,429 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,480 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Chesapeake Ranch Estates sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,429 of 15,516 and #5,480 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$97,139Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,307
Median Income
$97,139
Median Home Value
$286,600
Median Age
35.6
Poverty Rate
3.7%
Labor force participation
69.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
35.7 minutes
Drive Alone
71.9%
Carpool
3.6%
Public Transit
3.8%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
16.4%
Other
2.6%
Based on 5,182 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Maryland statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $255
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Maryland at $255 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Maryland statewide averages, not a meter reading for Chesapeake Ranch Estates. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Maryland's BEA cost-of-living index is 105.0 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Chesapeake Ranch Estates is $1,657/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Maryland statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 60.2 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Maryland statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Chesapeake Ranch Estates sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chesapeake Ranch Estates compares to similar-size Maryland cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.