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SheetMD-ODENTON-MD · Odenton, MD 45,585 pop · income 89th pct · 130 tracts
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 Odenton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Odenton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hagerstown · lowest
49,957
Hagerstown · lowest
49,957 median HH income
20.9% of the leader · rank #1
Durham · near
126,406
Durham · near
126,406 median HH income
52.8% of the leader · rank #2
Seabeck · near
126,442
Seabeck · near
126,442 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #3
Odenton · this city
126,455
Odenton · this city
126,455 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #4
Cambridge · near
126,469
Cambridge · near
126,469 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #5
Wacousta · near
126,471
Wacousta · near
126,471 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #6
Potomac · highest
239,205
Potomac · highest
239,205 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 Odenton 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: 45,585.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Odenton lands in the 89th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
89th
percentile, household income
78th
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: Odenton, MD
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 45,585 residents in Odenton, a small city within Maryland. Households in Odenton report a median income of $126,455 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.5%. Typical homes in Odenton are valued around $408,400, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. About 50.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 68.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 5 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $255 across Maryland, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Odenton'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 to schools and households to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Odenton, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Odenton?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Odenton?
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 Potomac (46,230 residents, $239,205 income); Hagerstown (43,490 residents, $49,957 income); Catonsville (42,717 residents, $110,051 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Keller, TX (45,598 residents); Ashburn, VA (45,551 residents); Elmhurst, IL (45,538 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Odenton?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
PlainCities matches 130 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Odenton?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 50.8% 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
2.5%
Bachelor's degree+
50.8%
Matched public schools
5
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.
Household income A
$126,455
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
50.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.5%
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).
Odenton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $126,455
Bachelor's+ share: 85/100 (A) · 50.8%
Poverty rate: 82/100 (A-) · 2.5%
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
How does Odenton compare to other US cities?
Here's how Odenton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value78% 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 Odenton 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 Odenton near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Odenton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Odenton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#131 of 445
71st percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#178 of 450
60th percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#295 of 479
38th percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#111 of 479
77th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Odenton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$408,40022nd percentilemore affordable than 22% 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
Odenton's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,828 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,211 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Odenton sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,828 of 15,516 and #1,211 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
$126,455Odenton, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Odenton, 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 Odenton, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
45,585
Median Income
$126,455
Median Home Value
$408,400
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
2.5%
Labor force participation
68.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.8%
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.3%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
3.3%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
17.8%
Other
0.9%
Based on 25,439 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 Odenton. 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 Odenton 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 Odenton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Odenton 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, 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.