Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 12580 · 39.31, -76.55
4 findings fired for Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD this run, against a typical home value of $396,959 in September 2026 and covered employment of 1,331,069 in 2026 Q1.
- 94th pct · 22nd of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 74th pct · 97th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 82nd pct · 68th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 51st pct · 185th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 25th pct · 284th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 44,960 | $134,760 | 1.47 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 39,920 | $37,320 | 1.17 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 30,930 | $99,100 | 1.05 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 29,780 | $50,990 | 2.00 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 28,350 | $43,010 | 1.10 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 26,880 | $38,960 | 0.72 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 22,300 | $34,670 | 0.83 |
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 21,090 | $33,820 | 0.63 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 19,590 | $43,030 | 0.99 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 19,050 | $38,830 | 0.99 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 17,480 | $45,800 | 0.77 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 17,180 | $40,710 | 0.69 |
| 15-1252 | Software Developers | 16,850 | $153,910 | 1.14 |
| 13-1199 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | 16,400 | $102,650 | 1.73 |
| 33-9032 | Security Guards | 16,020 | $42,620 | 1.43 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 15,580 | $60,770 | 0.87 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 15,070 | $76,190 | 1.20 |
| 13-1082 | Project Management Specialists | 14,700 | $111,580 | 1.58 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 13,580 | $42,630 | 1.07 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 13,550 | $94,880 | 1.07 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 13,150 | $76,570 | 1.09 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 11,340 | $72,470 | 1.04 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 11,310 | $40,560 | 0.91 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 11,250 | $54,550 | 0.84 |
| 43-9199 | Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | 11,050 | $53,210 | 6.59 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 10,940 | $45,730 | 1.03 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 10,880 | $48,130 | 0.51 |
| 41-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 10,860 | $50,530 | 1.11 |
| 47-2061 | Construction Laborers | 10,520 | $47,640 | 1.10 |
| 11-3031 | Financial Managers | 9,990 | $170,830 | 1.36 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 159,220 | $54,490 | 1.03 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 123,580 | $142,050 | 1.27 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 113,300 | $51,800 | 0.95 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 108,480 | $99,790 | 1.18 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 106,770 | $50,240 | 0.91 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 103,360 | $39,310 | 0.87 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 90,920 | $112,560 | 1.06 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 85,370 | $79,750 | 1.08 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 66,200 | $130,720 | 1.44 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 59,970 | $42,960 | 0.87 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 52,330 | $63,410 | 0.93 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 46,760 | $65,450 | 0.88 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 41,710 | $63,220 | 1.27 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 37,890 | $41,090 | 0.95 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 31,540 | $54,640 | 0.42 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 28,830 | $44,110 | 1.01 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 26,710 | $64,980 | 1.15 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 25,080 | $117,530 | 1.10 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 19,410 | $99,150 | 1.51 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 14,910 | $77,160 | 0.84 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 13,120 | $122,800 | 1.15 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 1,210 | $43,630 | 0.32 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Baltimore, MD metro was worth $396,959 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,937 in September 2026.
Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 1,331,069 covered jobs across the 7 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 7 of 7 member counties BLS publishes.
- 1,331,069 = 287,628 + 342,411 + 362,987 + 58,815 + 94,534 + 168,782 + 15,912
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Anne Arundel County, MD | 24003 |
| Baltimore city, MD | 24510 |
| Baltimore County, MD | 24005 |
| Carroll County, MD | 24013 |
| Harford County, MD | 24025 |
| Howard County, MD | 24027 |
| Queen Anne's County, MD | 24035 |
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD: 4 findings, 4 noted
noteBaltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD's typical asking rent rose 0.3% from $1,932 in August 2026 to $1,937 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.3% = (1936.978320620118 - 1931.8265183840929) / 1931.8265183840929 × 100
- 1936.978320620118 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1931.8265183840929 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Baltimore, MD brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.