Carney, Maryland

Area Profile

28,343 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Carney, in Baltimore County.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 50% of 2,668 published cities52
Housing affordability2620th of 4,223 published cities73
ClimateTop 44% of 4,223 published cities71
Physical resilienceTop 6% of 4,182 published cities94
AccessTop 45% of 4,226 published cities93
Economic stability2506th of 4,226 published cities56
The quick read

In the public schools here, 11% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.2 students for every teacher.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Carney in the top 6% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 18 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
28,343
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,620
Top 30% nationally
Density
4,046/sq mi
7.0 sq mi of land
Median age
39.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Baltimore County
Maryland
Metro area
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Nearest major airport
BWI
18 mi · Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood Marshall
Median home value
$319,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

40% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,967$83,620Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,129$46,398Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.0%Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.8 minTop 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher40.3%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation61.4%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$76,370Top 27%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$59,070Top 25%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202485k70k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,620 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers44,960$117,040
Retail Salespersons39,920$34,800
Registered Nurses30,930$99,550
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive29,780$49,220
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand28,350$43,250
Home Health and Personal Care Aides26,880$37,640

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

11% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 23% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
11.1%
Bottom 47% in Maryland
Reading proficiency
23.0%
Bottom 49% in Maryland
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Parkville HighBaltimore County Public Schools1,87713.9
Parkville MiddleBaltimore County Public Schools90017.03%37%
Pine Grove MiddleBaltimore County Public Schools80415.58%27%
Villa Cresta ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools60914.914%22%
Carney ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools52415.015%16%
Woodhome Elementary/MiddleBaltimore City Public Schools49619.86%10%
Halstead AcademyBaltimore County Public Schools48916.38%12%
Seven Oaks ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools45415.725%31%
Oakleigh ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools45213.39%11%
Pine Grove ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools41813.520%28%
Harford Hills ElementaryBaltimore County Public Schools37316.215%25%
White Oak SchoolBaltimore County Public Schools601.6

57.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Maryland’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,793 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
25.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,793
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$319,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.82Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate60.0%Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±66113,069Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$63$1,793Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,920$319,700Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.7%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.7%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 30°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.7 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MD SCI CTR BALTIMORE, 9.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation43.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

94 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and cold wave.

HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Cold waveModerate
DroughtModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, heat wave, lightning, strong wind, inland flooding, hail, tornado, coastal flooding, ice storm, wildfire, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Baltimore County records 6.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.8 per 100,000 residents in Baltimore County.

Homicide
6.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
21.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Baltimore County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Carney rather than Carney itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 18 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI18 mi10,503 ft
Harrisburg IntlMDT56 mi10,001 ft
Washington Dulles IntlIAD59 mi11,500 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
BaltimoreBaltimore city573,24359vs Carney
ColumbiaHoward County104,338vs Carney
Ellicott CityHoward County75,257vs Carney
Glen BurnieAnne Arundel County72,590vs Carney
DundalkBaltimore County65,969vs Carney
TowsonBaltimore County58,679vs Carney
SevernAnne Arundel County58,402vs Carney
Bel Air SouthHarford County58,137vs Carney
OdentonAnne Arundel County45,002vs Carney
CatonsvilleBaltimore County43,368vs Carney
AnnapolisAnne Arundel County40,72080vs Carney
EssexBaltimore County40,580vs Carney

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Carney

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
2123466,334$83,517
210574,386$145,924