North Beach, Maryland.
Typical home $419,392 (+1.6% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,127 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,488 +2%
- $412,904$419,392 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,258 +19%
- $351,134$419,392 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.
- North Beach$2,201
- 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 North Beach, MD rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
North Beach is a town of 2,146 people in Anne Arundel County. Half its households earn more than $83,933 a year and half less, against $124,911 across Anne Arundel County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Anne Arundel County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Beach is a small town in Anne Arundel County, home to a small population at the last full count. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with some snow, while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by government, transport and warehouses, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Anne Arundel County, some of the largest workplaces are Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Anne Arundel Medical Center and Northrop Grumman Systems. Commutes are long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The better-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. The Smithsonian Institution is a museum complex, the National Mall is a park, and the Washington Monument is a protected area. Together they make for a full day out, though the trip takes some planning.
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- 922households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anne Arundel County had 293,059 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Upper Marlboro Nnw weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anne Arundel County
- Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsSchool district11,336FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing6,206
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation5,460
- Anne Arundel Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,463FTE
- Keller North AmericaFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors2,462
- Baltimore Washington Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,193FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing2,091
- Anne Arundel Community CollegeTwo-year college1,717
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 405 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72,512 people in all across the county; North Beach has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Beach’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 Anne Arundel County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
North Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Beach$419,392
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 North Beach 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- North Beach17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Beach7
Zip codes with a North Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.