Odenton, Maryland.
Typical home $467,536 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,481 (+4.5%). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,170 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,320 -0%
- $468,855$467,536 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,487 +16%
- $402,049$467,536 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.
- Odenton$2,454
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Odenton, MD fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Odenton, MD rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Odenton runs $803/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $949 in May 2024.
That is $3,284 a month against $2,481 rent: a $2,454 mortgage payment, plus $329 property tax and $501 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Odenton
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.
- Owning all in$3,284
- Renting$2,481
- Mortgage only$2,454
Property tax · $329/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Anne Arundel County, MD
Insurance & upkeep · $501/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.
Living in Odenton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Odenton, in Anne Arundel County, had 42,947 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $128,441 a year and half less, against $124,911 across Anne Arundel County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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. Odenton is a suburban community in Anne Arundel County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where the typical home costs a good deal and rents run high. Household incomes are a little above the county's, few residents live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. The population is on the younger side. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing at night and a fair amount of snow, while July is hot. Rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in professional and business services, and in shops. Unemployment in Anne Arundel County is low and has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Among the largest workplaces in Odenton are Envocore, a construction management firm, and Wegmans Food Markets. A typical commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Washington's best-known sights are a longer drive away. The Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History are museums, and the National Mall is a park with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial along it. Sports fans can also reach Northwest Stadium, again a longer drive away.
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- 18,010households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 20%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 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 19 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baltimore Wash International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Odenton
- EnvocoreConstruction management, commercial and institutional building446
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets361
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation255
- Ferguson Trenching CompanyDistribution line, sewer and water, construction199
- People Now LogisticsLocal letter and parcel delivery services177
- Dominos PizzaRefridgerated warehouse storage156
- Giant Landover StoreGrocery stores126
- POY HoldingsAutomotive parts and accessories retailers122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,827 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Odenton’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.
Odenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Odenton$467,536
- 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 3 Odenton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Odenton34.35%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Odenton16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Odenton121
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Odenton53
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Odenton$479,384
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Odenton100.15%
Zip codes with a Odenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Odenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.