Calvert BeachMD
A town of 1,074.
Is Calvert Beach a good place to live?
Calvert Beach’s best subject grades are an A for cost of living and an A− for schools and health; its weakest is a C− for walkability. Only 4 of Maryland’s 329 towns score lower on the outdoors. Calvert Beach has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Calvert Beach stand out
Where Calvert Beach beats most towns.
1,074 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Calvert Beach grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Maryland), ordered by how far Calvert Beach is from typical.
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Moving to Calvert Beach: who provides what
Calvert Beach is unincorporated, so Calvert County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Mar 11, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Calvert Beach.
The biggest natural risk in Calvert Beach is hurricanes, at a very low overall level
The FEMA hazard score in Calvert Beach is 9 of 100. A third of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from hurricanes, followed by inland flooding at 32%. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 91% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Calvert Beach are healthier than 78% of U.S. towns
On the CDC’s 32 measures, Calvert Beach is ahead of Maryland on 10 and behind on 1. 18% of adults binge drink in the town, where Maryland’s towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 16%. The share of adults in Calvert Beach who have diabetes: 9.7%.
| Calvert Beach | Maryland towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 14% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.7% | 12% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Calvert Beach | MD |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.4% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.2% | 15.4% |
| More binge drinkers | 17.5% | 14.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Calvert Beach has 0.1 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
2.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Calvert Beach. In Calvert Beach, the average trip to work is 36 minutes, above both the Maryland town median (32 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Jobs based locally fell to 19 in 2023, 35 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Prince Frederick (12%), Washington (7%) and California (4%).
| Calvert Beach | Maryland towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 36 minutes | 32 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 2.1% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $90,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Calvert Beach
Calvert Beach has chilly winters and warm summers. Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 27°; snowfall runs to about 13 inches a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A home in Calvert Beach sells for about $317K at the median
Calvert Beach: 84% of households live in a home they own.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Northwest Stadium and 55 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Calvert Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaNorthwest Stadium
30 mi National MonumentGeorge Washington Birthplace National Monument72K visitors a year
39 mi Stadium & arenaAudi Field
39 mi Stadium & arenaNationals Park
37 mi Stadium & arenaCareFirst Arena
39 mi LandmarkGeorge Washington Masonic National MemorialPhoto credits
Northwest Stadium: Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0 · George Washington Birthplace National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · Audi Field: Rainclaw7, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nationals Park: Something Original (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · CareFirst Arena: Gregory Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0 · George Washington Masonic National Memorial: Joe Ravi (Shutterstock iStock Dreamstime), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Calvert Beach
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Calvert Beach; the nearest are
About 0 of every 100 Calvert Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Maryland.
100% of working residents leave Calvert Beach for work
Where Calvert Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Calvert Beach
Census-designated place in Maryland, United States
Calvert Beach is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 808 as of the 2010 census. Prior to 2010, the community was part of the Calvert Beach-Long Beach CDP.
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- Area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 46 ft
Questions about Calvert Beach
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Calvert Beach, MD expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $323,000, 24% below the Maryland typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.