MD metros

Cost of living across major MD metropolitan areas.

What living in MD costs

Across the 3 MD metros we track, the typical cost-of-living index is 95.4 against a national metro median of 95.7 — line with the country as a whole. That ranks MD 23 of the 48 states we cover, counting from the cheapest.

The state is not uniform: Salisbury, MD is the cheapest metro at 92.6, while Baltimore, MD runs 103.2 — a spread of 11% between them.

A typical MD home costs $405,877, or about 5.6× median household income, and typical rent is $1,919/mo.

Taxes in MD

MD levies a state income tax on top of the federal one. Effective property tax runs about 0.7% of home value in a typical MD metro, and combined state and local sales tax is around 6%.

Property tax is the one that scales with housing, so it bites hardest in the pricier metros above. Per-metro figures are on each metro page.

Metro	COL index	Median home	Median rent
Baltimore, MD	103.2	$405,877	$1,919
Salisbury, MD	92.6	$429,483	$1,968
Hagerstown, MD	95.4	$324,997	$1,596

Cities & towns in MD (131)

Local property tax, home values and school scores for each place.

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