20623Rosaryville, Maryland

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 20623.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity4464th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured44
ClimateTop 42% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured72
Physical resilienceTop 29% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured76
Access5045th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured83
Economic stabilityTop 1% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured92
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.7% and the Opportunity signal places 20623 in the bottom 28%.

A typical July reaches 90°F and a typical January falls to 30°F, on thirty-year normals.

Natural-hazard exposure sits in the middle range of published ZIP profiles, with hurricane, earthquake and cold wave the hazards that carry it.

At a glance

Population
2,761
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$146,058
Top 4% nationally
Density
1,439/sq mi
1.9 sq mi of land
Median age
50.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Rosaryville
Maryland
Metro area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Nearest major airport
BWI
31 mi · Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood Marshall
Median home value
$494,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.7% is lower than 40% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 469,294 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 96% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$32,361$146,058Top 4%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,602$62,027Top 10%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate0.7%Bottom 6%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute53.1 minTop 1%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.7%Top 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment469,294Top 12%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-5.0%Bottom 3%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 10%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force492,240Top 12%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation69.8%Top 15%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$91,930Top 5%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$71,060Top 6%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 47%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.7%Top 40%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024146k116k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $146,058 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 — Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers112,530$156,460
Business Operations Specialists, All Other76,600$104,770
Software Developers69,060$154,930
Retail Salespersons66,920$36,610
Management Analysts62,360$126,830
Fast Food and Counter Workers60,560$34,600

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Rosaryville, MD, the city containing this ZIP code.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 10% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

A median home costs 3.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
109.5

Prices here run about 10% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
Home price to income
3.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
Median home value
$494,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index109.5Top 22%of 6,0712023
Home price to income3.39Top 42%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate93.2%Top 12%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±139917Bottom 44%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$51,037$494,500Top 13%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate0.0%Bottom 1%of 33,0282024 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 41.8 inches, including 13.7 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WASHINGTON REAGAN AP, 12.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall13.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low30°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

76 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate
Cold waveModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Prince George's County records 8.0 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 9.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 13.9 per 100,000 residents in Prince George's County.

Homicide
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
5.8
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 Prince George's 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 20623 rather than 20623 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 31 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI31 mi10,503 ft
Washington Dulles IntlIAD36 mi11,500 ft
Richmond IntlRIC89 mi9,003 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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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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

20623 vs Rosaryville

How this ZIP area compares with Rosaryville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

20623
Rosaryville
Median household income
$146,058
vs
$158,923
Per capita income
$62,027
vs
$56,205
Population density
1,439/sq mi
vs
1,403/sq mi
Median home value
$494,500
vs
$478,700
Homeownership rate
93.2%
vs
93.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.7%
vs
38.9%
Poverty rate
0.7%
vs
3.8%
Median age
50.5
vs
47.4

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.