Owings Mills vs Woodlawn

A side-by-side comparison of Owings Mills and Woodlawn: population, income, housing, and more.

Owings Mills and Woodlawn are places in Maryland. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Woodlawn has the higher population (40,476 vs 35,626 in Owings Mills). Owings Mills has the higher median household income ($94,046 vs $78,591 in Woodlawn). Owings Mills has the higher median home value ($335,000 vs $269,800 in Woodlawn).

Population, income & housing

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
Population	35,626	40,476
Median age	33.5 yrs	37.0 yrs
Median household income	$94,046	$78,591
Median home value	$335,000	$269,800
Median gross rent	$1,815	$1,440
Housing units	15,515	15,998
Homeownership rate	45.4%	63.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	43.5%	36.5%
Unemployment rate	5.6%	5.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
Population	35,081 → 35,626 (+1.6%)	40,469 → 40,476 (+0.0%)
Median household income	$81,569 → $94,046 (+15.3%)	$68,623 → $78,591 (+14.5%)
Median home value	$260,700 → $335,000 (+28.5%)	$219,000 → $269,800 (+23.2%)
Median gross rent	$1,551 → $1,815 (+17.0%)	$1,300 → $1,440 (+10.8%)

Owings Mills

Population

35,08135,626

Median household income

$81,569$94,046

Median home value

$260,700$335,000

Median gross rent

$1,551$1,815

Woodlawn

Population

40,46940,476

Median household income

$68,623$78,591

Median home value

$219,000$269,800

Median gross rent

$1,300$1,440

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
Under 5	7.2%	8.0%
5 to 17	16.0%	16.7%
18 to 24	11.2%	6.6%
25 to 34	19.0%	14.9%
35 to 44	11.2%	14.2%
45 to 54	12.5%	10.8%
55 to 64	11.9%	13.2%
65 to 74	7.0%	10.4%
75 and over	4.1%	5.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
White (non-Hispanic)	18.6%	19.7%
Black or African American	60.5%	49.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	4.6%	16.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.2%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	0.6%
Two or more races	4.4%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	11.2%	10.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
No high school diploma	5.2%	12.3%
High school graduate	19.5%	24.0%
Some college or associate's	31.8%	27.2%
Bachelor's degree	22.7%	21.4%
Graduate or professional degree	20.9%	15.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
Drove alone	68.1%	71.8%
Carpooled	7.2%	8.1%
Public transit	4.5%	3.5%
Walked	2.3%	0.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.3%
Worked from home	16.4%	14.7%
Other means	1.6%	0.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
1-unit, detached	19.3%	44.3%
1-unit, attached	23.7%	29.8%
2 to 4 units	2.9%	2.9%
5 to 19 units	37.6%	17.7%
20 or more units	16.6%	5.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.4%

Poverty & households

	Owings Mills	Woodlawn
Poverty rate	5.5%	13.8%
Average household size	2.41	2.61
Mean commute (minutes)	32	27
Median year structure built	1995	1969