Median Home Price in Ocean City, MD

The median home value in Ocean City, MD is $444,560, down 0.46% from a year earlier.

City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$444,560

Year-over-Year

-0.46%

Population

6,938

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 0.3%, from $446,036 in May 2026 to $444,560 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Ocean City, MD monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$446,036	-2.9%
Jun 2026	$444,692	-2.4%
Jul 2026	$447,497	-1.7%
Aug 2026	$443,759	-1.0%
Sep 2026	$444,560	-0.5%

Ocean City ranks #14 of 38 Maryland cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 9.2% above the state's city median of $407,036. It sits in Worcester County, where the county-wide median is $422,876.

Crime in Ocean City

Ocean City police recorded a violent crime rate of 980 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 8,807 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Ocean City

What is the average home price in Ocean City, MD?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Ocean City, that value is $444,560. That's down 0.46% from a year earlier. It is about 9.2% above the typical Maryland city tracked here.

Is Ocean City expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Ocean City are more expensive than Worcester County as a whole, where the median is $422,876 — a difference of about 5.1%.

Is Ocean City a safe place to live?

Ocean City police reported 980 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,938. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.