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SheetMD-GLENMONT-MD · Glenmont, MD 16,529 pop · income 85th 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 Glenmont
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Glenmont on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ada · lowest
51,792
Ada · lowest
51,792 median HH income
24.6% of the leader · rank #1
Uniondale · near
115,037
Uniondale · near
115,037 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #2
Hackberry · near
115,054
Hackberry · near
115,054 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #3
Glenmont · this city
115,058
Glenmont · this city
115,058 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #4
Barrytown · near
115,078
Barrytown · near
115,078 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #5
Kahite · near
115,078
Kahite · near
115,078 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #6
Fort Hunt · highest
210,471
Fort Hunt · highest
210,471 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 Glenmont 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: 16,529.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Glenmont lands in the 85th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
85th
percentile, household income
87th
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: Glenmont, MD
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,529 residents in Glenmont, a small town within Maryland. Median household income here is $115,058 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.4%. Home values in Glenmont run a median of $542,300, and the median resident age is 38.2 years. About 44.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.2% 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,657 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Maryland's average monthly utility costs around $255 (state average). Commute times here average 28.4 minutes, with 51.6% driving alone and 19.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 60.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Glenmont'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Glenmont, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Glenmont?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Which cities make useful reference points for Glenmont?
Within Maryland, the closest population matches are White Oak (16,458 residents, $80,118 income); Cloverly (16,726 residents, $146,316 income); Aberdeen (16,831 residents, $76,019 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Albemarle, NC (16,527 residents); Westchester, IL (16,524 residents); Ada, OK (16,536 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Glenmont?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 51.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.4 minutes.
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 A-
$115,058
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
Glenmont profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $115,058
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.4%
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.4%
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
How does Glenmont compare to other US cities?
Where Glenmont sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value87% 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 Glenmont 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 Glenmont near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Glenmont ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Glenmont only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#168 of 445
62nd percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#83 of 450
82nd percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#110 of 479
77th percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#147 of 479
69th 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Glenmont's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$542,30013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Glenmont's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,400 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,469 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Glenmont sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,400 of 15,516 and #2,469 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$115,058Glenmont, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Glenmont, 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 Glenmont, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,529
Median Income
$115,058
Median Home Value
$542,300
Median Age
38.2
Poverty Rate
8.4%
Labor force participation
69.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.4 minutes
Drive Alone
51.6%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
15.1%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
19.1%
Other
0.8%
Based on 8,821 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 Glenmont. 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 Glenmont 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 Glenmont sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Glenmont 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.