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SheetMD-OXON-HILL-MD · Oxon Hill, MD 18,491 pop · income 74th 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 Oxon Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Oxon Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cumberland · lowest
47,819
Cumberland · lowest
47,819 median HH income
22.8% of the leader · rank #1
Oxon Hill · this city
94,989
Oxon Hill · this city
94,989 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #2
Knik-Fairview · near
95,000
Knik-Fairview · near
95,000 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #3
Ridgeway · near
95,000
Ridgeway · near
95,000 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #4
Avocado Heigh… · near
95,000
Avocado Heigh… · near
95,000 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #5
Oakdale · near
95,000
Oakdale · near
95,000 median HH income
45.2% of the leader · rank #6
Franklin Farm · highest
210,169
Franklin Farm · highest
210,169 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 Oxon Hill 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: 18,491.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Oxon Hill lands in the 74th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
74th
percentile, household income
71st
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: Oxon Hill, MD
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 18,491 residents in Oxon Hill, a small town within Maryland. Oxon Hill households earn a median of $94,989 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.9%. Home values in Oxon Hill run a median of $345,500, and the median resident age is 43.9 years. Educational attainment runs 30.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 57.1°F with 46.8 inches of precipitation per year.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,657 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $255 across Maryland, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Oxon Hill workers runs 31.3 minutes, with 63.9% driving alone and 15.7% working from home. 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 Oxon Hill'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 schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Oxon Hill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Oxon Hill?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 30.4% 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Oxon Hill?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.9%, 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. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Oxon Hill?
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 63.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 31.3 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Oxon Hill?
Within Maryland, the closest population matches are Seabrook (18,495 residents, $96,033 income); Maryland (18,669 residents, $109,530 income); Lake Shore (18,263 residents, $127,453 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Panama City Beach, FL (18,493 residents); Glenvar Heights, FL (18,488 residents); Ammon, ID (18,496 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Oxon Hill?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 57.1°F, with 46.8 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Maryland is 60.2 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
57.1°F
Annual precipitation
46.8 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
60.2
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Above median income · poverty 3.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
105.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Maryland average
C
City profile score · Oxon Hill, MD
57/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
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
$94,989
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.4%
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).
Oxon Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,989
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 3.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.4%
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
How does Oxon Hill compare to other US cities?
Here's how Oxon Hill stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value71% 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 Oxon Hill 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 Oxon Hill near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Oxon Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Oxon Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#244 of 445
45th percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#245 of 450
46th percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#231 of 479
51st percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#273 of 479
43rd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Oxon Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$345,50029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Oxon Hill's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,502 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,624 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Oxon Hill sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,502 of 15,516 and #1,624 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
$94,989Oxon Hill, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Oxon Hill, 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 Oxon Hill, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
18,491
Median Income
$94,989
Median Home Value
$345,500
Median Age
43.9
Poverty Rate
3.9%
Labor force participation
64.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.4%
Climate
Avg Temperature
57.1°F
Annual Precipitation
46.8"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
9
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
31.3 minutes
Drive Alone
63.9%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
6.2%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
15.7%
Other
2.6%
Based on 9,839 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 Oxon Hill. 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 Oxon Hill 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 Oxon Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Oxon Hill 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.