568,271 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.6% since 2020)
81 square miles of land · 7,020 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
5 active community water systems list Baltimore city in the area they serve, reporting 1,603,209 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF BALTIMORE surface water · local government · MD0300002 | 1,600,000 served |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY buys surface water · public/private · MD0300007 | 2,058 served |
| KESWICK MULTI-CARE CENTER buys surface water · private · MD0300005 | 575 served |
| METROPOLITAN OF BALTIMORE buys surface water · private · MD0300006 | 414 served |
| THE NEIGHBORHOODS AT ST. ELIZABETH buys surface water · private · MD0300004 | 162 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 1,989 people were held in Baltimore city's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 527 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 1,891.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Baltimore city. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $1.9 billion — $1.7 billion to run schools, about $22,977 per student, plus $156.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $454.5 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 billion state, $416.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $124.7 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Baltimore city about $136.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
374 bridges in Baltimore city: 59 in good condition, 281 fair, and 34 poor (9.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| I-83 over CSX MTA AMTRAK AND NOR · built 1959 | 127,291 vehicles a day |
| I-83 over JONES FALLS (MI. 7.1 TO · built 1959 | 105,600 vehicles a day |
| PERRING PKWY RAMP over HERRING RUN · built 1965 | 75,220 vehicles a day |
| RUSSELL STREET VIA over OSTEND STREET AND CSX · built 1951 | 70,700 vehicles a day |
| PULASKI HIGHWAY over HERRING RUN · built 1921 | 58,858 vehicles a day |
| RUSSELL STREET over CSX · built 1963 | 46,276 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.3 billion of work in Baltimore city in fiscal 2025, about $10,742 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Maryland are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Baltimore city come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Baltimore city built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Maryland: the state government and every county in Maryland.
Nearby counties: Baltimore County (10 mi) · Howard County (17 mi) · Anne Arundel County (21 mi) · Harford County (23 mi) · Kent County (26 mi) · Carroll County (28 mi).