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Cost of living in Pocomoke City, Maryland

Pocomoke City, Maryland has about 4,405 people. Typical rent is $836 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $53,203 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

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Typical rent is $836 a month.

Pocomoke City is a city in Maryland. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $53,203 a year.

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People
4,405
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$836
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$53,203
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$199,000
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$1,184
Worcester County, MD

Pocomoke City, Maryland has about 4,405 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $199,000.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Worcester County is $1,184 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Pocomoke City. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

Maryland's prices sit at 105.0 when the U.S. average is 100. This place is not in a metro area with its own index, so this is the state number from BEA for 2024.

Maryland taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 6.0% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Pocomoke City's exact store tax.

Some places in Maryland add a local wage tax. In 2023 the state average was about 2.40% of income. That is not a Pocomoke City bill.

In July 2026, a typical Maryland home paid 21.41¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Pocomoke City's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for Maryland in the table we use.

Among 293 places we list in Maryland with a rent figure, 280 have higher typical rent than Pocomoke City.

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USDA has a live map of stores that take SNAP. We did not copy that store list here. The downloadable file is a history file for 2005 through 2025, so the live map is the one to use.

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Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.