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Melwood CDP, Maryland: commercial real estate data.
Melwood CDP is a Census CDP of 3,401 people across 2.83 square miles of land, in Prince George's County. Median household income is $81,364, 83.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Melwood
What Melwood is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.83 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,202 plus or minus 250
- County holding the largest share of its areaPrince George's County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melwood
How many people live in Melwood
- Population3,401 plus or minus 707
- Median age43.3
- Population under 18741 plus or minus 216
- Share under 1821.8 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over819 plus or minus 225
- Share 65 and over24.1 percent
- Households1,394
- Family households695 plus or minus 148
- Share of households that are families49.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melwood
Income and work in Melwood
- Median household income$81,364 plus or minus $19,110
- Per capita income$49,919
- Civilian labor force1,660 plus or minus 417
- Employed1,517 plus or minus 357
- Unemployed143 plus or minus 99
- Unemployment rate8.6 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over2,448
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.4 percent plus or minus 20.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher31.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.8 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melwood
Housing in Melwood
- Housing units1,467
- Occupied units1,394
- Vacant units73 plus or minus 74
- Vacancy rate5.0 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Owner occupied1,165
- Renter occupied229 plus or minus 121
- Ownership rate83.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$397,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,233 plus or minus $635
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.2 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Single family units940 plus or minus 206
- Share single family64.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more206 plus or minus 121
- Share in buildings of two or more14.0 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Mobile homes321 plus or minus 83
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melwood
How Melwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,267 plus or minus 360
- Commuting under 15 minutes172 plus or minus 80
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.6 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more767 plus or minus 215
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more60.5 percent plus or minus 24.2
- Drove alone66.2 percent
- Carpooled11.5 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked3.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Worked from home16.5 percent plus or minus 6.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Prince George's County, not Melwood
Prince George's County context, not Melwood figures
These are Prince George's County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Melwood measurements.
- Establishments in Prince George's County16,350
- Employment at those establishments, Prince George's County276,055
- Covered employment, Prince George's County329,476
- Average annual pay, Prince George's County$73,373
- Average weekly wage, Prince George's County$1,411
- Housing units permitted, Prince George's County1,473
- Of those, single family, Prince George's County1,473
- County product, 2024, Prince George's County$65,163,322,000
- County product change over the prior year, Prince George's County7.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Prince George's County$60,896
Every figure in this section is published for Prince George's County as a whole and is not a measurement of Melwood. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Melwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Melwood, Maryland?
3,401, in 1,394 households. Melwood CDP covers 2.83 square miles of land, which is 1,202 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Melwood in?
Prince George's County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Melwood?
$81,364. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $397,800. Median gross rent is $1,233 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Melwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Prince George's County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Melwood.
Is zoning published for Melwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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