Edgemere, Maryland.
Typical home $368,895 (+0.5% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$965 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,874 +1%
- $367,020$368,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,169 +19%
- $310,726$368,895 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Edgemere$1,936
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Edgemere, MD rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edgemere, Baltimore County, Maryland
Edgemere, in Baltimore County, had 9,069 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $103,165 a year and half less, against $91,768 across Baltimore County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Baltimore County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Edgemere is a community in Baltimore County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, the building trades and manufacturing. Some of the biggest workplaces in Edgemere itself are industrial, among them North American Millwright Services, DAP Global and C. Steinweg, USA. The commute to work is a fairly long one for many, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Patapsco River runs in or beside town, and Fort Howard sits there too, a fort to walk around. A short drive away are Fort McHenry, another historic fort, and the National Aquarium. The Walters Art Museum is also a short drive away, and the Baltimore Museum of Art is a longer one.
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- 3,567households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baltimore County had 369,662 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Md Sci Ctr Baltimore weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edgemere
- North American Millwright ServicesIndustrial building construction151
- DAP GlobalAdhesives manufacturing140
- Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br4Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services138
- ClarkWestern Dietrich Building Systems - BaltimoreStuds, sheet metal, manufacturing94
- C.Steinweg, USAStevedoring services82
- TAI Specialty ConstructionIndustrial building construction58
- Maryland MetalsRolls and roll coverings, rubber manufacturing41
- R. E. Pierson Construction CompanyConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 805 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of EdgemereRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of EdgemereRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edgemere’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Baltimore County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Edgemere home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edgemere$368,895
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Edgemere listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Edgemere35.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edgemere25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edgemere9
Zip codes with a Edgemere address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edgemere — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.