Zip lookup · MD

21901
North East, Maryland.

North East, Cecil County, MD · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro · population 19,514

What it costs per month · 21901 $2,057/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,048 (+104%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $30 +0%
$391,828$391,857 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $62,996 +19%
$328,861$391,857 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 21901 $2,057 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 21901$2,057
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.

Typical home values in zip 21901 rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 21901 rose 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 21901 runs $930/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $990 in Jan 2025.

That is $2,768 a month against $1,838 rent: a $2,057 mortgage payment, plus $292 property tax and $420 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 21901

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,768 Renting $1,838 Mortgage only $2,057
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$2,768
  • Renting$1,838
  • Mortgage only$2,057

Property tax · $292/mo 0.89% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Cecil County, MD

Insurance & upkeep · $420/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: North East, MD — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,838 as of Sep 2026
+1.5%year on year
Typical home value $391,857 as of Sep 2026
+0.0%year on year

Asking rent — 21901

Against the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro and the national benchmark.

$1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 21901 $1,838 Philadelphia $1,903 United States $1,932
$1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2022 2024 2026
  • 21901$1,838
  • Philadelphia$1,903
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 21901

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 21901 $391,857 Philadelphia $386,048 United States $366,157
$250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 21901$391,857
  • Philadelphia$386,048
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 43 zips in range — sorting picks from all 43.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
1.5 21914 Charlestown 810 — $331,643
4.6 21903 Perryville 5,692 — $350,424
6.0 21921 Elkton 45,527 $1,904 $373,205
6.9 21904 Port Deposit 6,233 — $403,216
8.2 21920 Elk Mills 1,413 — $276,463
8.3 21915 Chesapeake City 2,471 — $411,372
8.3 21911 Rising Sun 10,551 — $399,319
9.5 21917 Colora 2,233 — $410,803
10.2 21078 Havre De Grace 20,030 $1,929 $404,556
11.5 21919 Earleville 3,626 — $377,401
12.5 19702 Newark 55,683 $2,022 $350,587
12.8 19362 Nottingham 6,092 — $468,434
13.0 21918 Conowingo 4,169 — $399,707
13.0 21913 Cecilton 820 — $304,906
13.5 21912 Warwick 1,536 — $579,185
13.8 19701 Bear 42,984 $2,419 $418,810
13.9 19363 Oxford 18,231 — $473,424
13.9 19352 Lincoln University 11,484 — $577,711
14.0 21001 Aberdeen 27,168 $1,921 $344,379
14.5 19713 Newark 30,747 $2,037 $316,354
14.6 19711 Newark 49,432 $2,028 $424,206
14.7 21034 Darlington 2,846 — $448,970
15.0 19350 Landenberg 10,945 — $641,863
15.1 21028 Churchville 3,103 — $536,539
16.1 19709 Middletown 53,234 $2,755 $535,757
16.3 21610 Betterton 391 — $319,243
16.4 19733 Saint Georges 186 — $309,746
16.7 21017 Belcamp 6,648 $1,887 $284,976
17.3 17563 Peach Bottom 3,952 — $433,807
17.5 21667 Still Pond 291 — $300,567

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.