Accident vs Mountain Lake Park

A side-by-side comparison of Accident and Mountain Lake Park: population, income, housing, and more.

Accident and Mountain Lake Park are places in Maryland. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Mountain Lake Park has the higher population (2,033 vs 436 in Accident). Accident has the higher median household income ($58,750 vs $58,418 in Mountain Lake Park). Accident has the higher median home value ($206,500 vs $199,200 in Mountain Lake Park).

Population, income & housing

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
Population	436	2,033
Median age	32.4 yrs	45.8 yrs
Median household income	$58,750	$58,418
Median home value	$206,500	$199,200
Median gross rent	—	$720
Housing units	206	1,121
Homeownership rate	58.9%	63.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.9%	21.3%
Unemployment rate	2.9%	8.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
Population	335 → 436 (+30.1%)	2,184 → 2,033 (-6.9%)
Median household income	$57,500 → $58,750 (+2.2%)	$41,974 → $58,418 (+39.2%)
Median home value	$144,300 → $206,500 (+43.1%)	$142,100 → $199,200 (+40.2%)
Median gross rent	—	$554 → $720 (+30.0%)

Accident

Population

335436

Median household income

$57,500$58,750

Median home value

$144,300$206,500

Mountain Lake Park

Population

2,1842,033

Median household income

$41,974$58,418

Median home value

$142,100$199,200

Median gross rent

$554$720

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
Under 5	7.1%	4.1%
5 to 17	14.2%	14.3%
18 to 24	18.1%	4.6%
25 to 34	13.5%	9.7%
35 to 44	13.8%	15.6%
45 to 54	9.9%	11.8%
55 to 64	11.2%	15.1%
65 to 74	6.9%	14.7%
75 and over	5.3%	10.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
White (non-Hispanic)	92.7%	92.5%
Black or African American	0.2%	0.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.0%
Asian	0.2%	0.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	2.3%
Two or more races	2.3%	3.7%
Hispanic or Latino	4.4%	0.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
No high school diploma	4.9%	8.7%
High school graduate	36.7%	42.9%
Some college or associate's	39.4%	27.1%
Bachelor's degree	8.0%	12.7%
Graduate or professional degree	11.0%	8.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
Drove alone	80.6%	78.6%
Carpooled	7.7%	10.0%
Public transit	2.3%	2.2%
Walked	0.0%	2.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	9.5%	7.2%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
1-unit, detached	65.0%	74.4%
1-unit, attached	1.5%	3.9%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	4.6%
5 to 19 units	2.4%	7.3%
20 or more units	22.8%	8.4%
Mobile home & other	8.3%	1.3%

Poverty & households

	Accident	Mountain Lake Park
Poverty rate	24.8%	15.2%
Average household size	2.27	1.95
Mean commute (minutes)	17	21
Median year structure built	1980	1979