ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 21213
Baltimore County, Maryland: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 28,862
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 21213 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 21213 sits within Baltimore County, MD, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 21213 carries a Census-reported population of 28,862, ranking #25 of 67 ZIPs in Baltimore County, spread across 3.43 square miles (about 8,415 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Baltimore County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Baltimore County crime page linked below.
ZIP 21213 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Baltimore County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 21213 Census context
These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.
- Median household income
- $47,870
- Median age
- 37.3 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 55%
- Occupied homes
- 11,237
- Median home value
- $121,800
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 19.4%
- Poverty rate
- 26.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 7.0%
ZIP 21213's median home value of $121,800 is lower than 97% of the 419 MD ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
ZIP 21213 settlement vs Baltimore County
ZIP 21213 itself is about 8,415 people per Census sq mi across 3.4 sq mi (28,862 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 21213 accounts for roughly 3.4% of the county reporting population (28,862 of 854,535).
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 21213
Similar Census population (~28,862)
- ZIP 28715, NC · 28,859 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 03062, NH · 28,866 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 20112, VA · 28,856 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 44129, OH · 28,851 pop · Δ11
County detail: Baltimore County · State atlas: Maryland
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).
Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.
Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.