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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −2.8% YoY. inventory, +9.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 2.8% YoY while the median home got down 0.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 21209 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 42.5% of this ZIP's 11,621 occupied households, on a median household income of $91K.
| Measure | ZIP 21209 | Baltimore city | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $91K | $62K | +$29K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.7% | 19.7% | -13.0% |
| Median Age | 35.60 | 36.20 | -0.60 |
| Total Population | 30,126 | 573,243 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.58 | 2.16 | +0.42 |
| Owner-Occupied | 57.5% | 47.5% | +10.0% |
| Worked From Home | 23.7% | 17.8% | +5.9% |
| Mean Commute | 24.00 | 29.10 | -5.10 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.7% to 573,243: residents under 18 are down 0.7% and those 65 and over are up 1.7%.
County median household income is $62K, 19.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.8% work from home.