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Place dossier plate
SheetMD-NEW-CARROLLTON-MD · New Carrollton, MD 13,544 pop · income 62nd 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 New Carrollton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Carrollton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Beeville · lowest
51,250
Beeville · lowest
51,250 median HH income
26.8% of the leader · rank #1
Bradford · near
80,288
Bradford · near
80,288 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #2
New Carrollton · this city
80,292
New Carrollton · this city
80,292 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #3
East Tulare V… · near
80,294
East Tulare V… · near
80,294 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #4
Lone Tree · near
80,294
Lone Tree · near
80,294 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #5
Hopland · near
80,298
Hopland · near
80,298 median HH income
42.1% of the leader · rank #6
Brock Hall · highest
190,896
Brock Hall · highest
190,896 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for New Carrollton on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 13,544.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
New Carrollton - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, New Carrollton places in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
84th
percentile, median rent
34th
percentile, safety
📝 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: New Carrollton, MD
13,544 people live in New Carrollton, Maryland - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $80,292 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.2%. Home values in New Carrollton run a median of $378,300, and the median resident age is 34.1 years. About 28.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1938.1 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Maryland carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Maryland scores 105.0 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,657 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Maryland run around $255, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for New Carrollton workers runs 30.1 minutes, with 71.9% driving alone and 9.5% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 60.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of New Carrollton'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 population change to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Carrollton, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is New Carrollton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +24 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.2% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Which cities make useful reference points for New Carrollton?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Maryland, the closest population matches are Lexington Park (13,419 residents, $89,167 income); Brock Hall (13,400 residents, $190,896 income); Joppatowne (13,397 residents, $109,589 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Powell, TN (13,544 residents); Vinings, GA (13,538 residents); Eatontown, NJ (13,537 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.
How far does income reach against housing in New Carrollton?
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.
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 3.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in New Carrollton?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.1 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. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in New Carrollton?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1938.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 15% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1938.1
Violent rate
293.0
Property rate
1645.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for New Carrollton?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 28.4% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
3.2%
Bachelor's degree+
28.4%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Poverty rate B+
3.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$80,292
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
293 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
New Carrollton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 77/100 (B+) · 3.2%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,292
Bachelor's+ share: 55/100 (C) · 28.4%
Violent crime: 34/100 (F) · 293 /100k
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
Where New Carrollton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
New Carrollton's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - New Carrollton highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
New Carrollton, MD (this city): home $378,300, crime 1,938/100k
Eatontown, NJ : home $454,300, crime 2,108/100k
Glen Carbon, IL : home $278,200, crime 1,168/100k
Beeville, TX : home $96,400, crime 3,130/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does New Carrollton compare to other US cities?
Here's how New Carrollton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent84% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Maryland alone, New Carrollton ranks #33 of 70 Maryland cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares New Carrollton 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 New Carrollton near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Carrollton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Carrollton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#309 of 445
31st percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#207 of 450
54th percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#262 of 479
45th percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#284 of 479
41st 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
New Carrollton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
New Carrollton's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How New Carrollton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$378,30025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
New Carrollton'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
#12,399 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,468 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, New Carrollton sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,399 of 15,516 and #2,468 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
$80,292New Carrollton, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Carrollton, 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 New Carrollton, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,544
Median Income
$80,292
Median Home Value
$378,300
Median Age
34.1
Poverty Rate
3.2%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1938.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
293.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1645.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Carrollton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,620 residents
2021
13,491 residents
2022
13,419 residents
2023
13,450 residents
2024
13,578 residents
2025
13,644 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.1 minutes
Drive Alone
71.9%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
6.0%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
9.5%
Other
1.4%
Based on 6,220 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 New Carrollton. 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 New Carrollton 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 New Carrollton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Carrollton 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, 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.