County Prince George's County, Maryland - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Prince George's County, Maryland was $100,708. An estimated 4.3% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 16.1% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 84.3% of households received earnings. An estimated 24.8% of households received Social Security and an estimated 26.7 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $21,362. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 10.2 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 13.7% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 8.8% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 9.3% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 11.6 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 50.8% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 41.7% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 36.8% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Prince George's County, Maryland in 2019-2023, 88.8% had health insurance coverage and 11.2% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 66.5% and public coverage was 34.9%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 8%.

In 2019-2023, Prince George's County, Maryland had a total population of 955,584 - 493,091 (51.6%) females and 462,493 (48.4%) males. The median age was 38.5 years. An estimated 22.2% of the population was under 18 years, 33.9% was 19 to 44 years, 26.7% was 45 to 64 years, and 14.4 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 344,586 households in Prince George's County, Maryland. The average household size was 2.72 people.

Married-couple households made up 38.3% of the households in Prince George's County, Maryland while cohabiting couple households made up 6.8% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 35.9% of all households, while 19% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 12% of households were male householders living alone, and 17.9% were female householders living alone, for a total of 29.9% of all households.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, 31.3% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 29.3% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 75.1% of the people living in Prince George's County, Maryland were U.S. natives. 26.3% of the Prince George's County, Maryland population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 24.9% of Prince George's County, Maryland residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 43.1% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 64.3 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Prince George's County, Maryland come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Prince George's County, Maryland.

Among people at least five years old living in Prince George's County, Maryland in 2019-2023, 30.1 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 19.1% of people at least five years old; 14.2% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 87.9 % of the people at least one year old living in Prince George's County, Maryland were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 86.7 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 36.1% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 13.3% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Prince George's County, Maryland was 241,771 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 12,001 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 151,475. College or graduate school enrollment was 78,295.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 10.1 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 3.2% of people under 18 years old, to 8.3% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 29.1% of those 65 and over.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, 65 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 30% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 68.5% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 26.2% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 5.2 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Prince George's County, Maryland worked in the following industries:

An estimated 61.2% of Prince George's County, Maryland workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 10.2% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 35.5 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Prince George's County, Maryland had a total of 362,440 housing units. Of these housing units, 66.2% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 33.3% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 0.6% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

8.4% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 4.7% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Prince George's County, Maryland was 6.1 rooms, and of these housing units 64.2% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Prince George's County, Maryland had 344,586 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 17,854 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 62.3% while renters occupied 37.7%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.81 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.57.

9% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 10% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 9.2% and another 22.8% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Prince George's County, Maryland:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Prince George's County, Maryland was $404,300.

Of the owner-occupied households, 79 % had a mortgage. 21% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $2,435 and for owners without a mortgage it was $802.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Prince George's County, Maryland was $1,761. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.