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Population
81,069
Home Ownership
37%
Household Median
$88,274
College or Above
57.8%
Time Zone
America/New_York
Zip Code
20910 20912 20903 20901

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Welcome to the Silver Spring Home page. The Silver Spring Home page provides as much information as possible on Silver Spring. Knowing Silver Spring’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Silver Spring’s Home page, you will also find Silver Spring’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Silver Spring has a population of 81069. 49.1% of Silver Spring’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 44.7% of Silver Spring is married and 36.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $525,847, and the average rent is $1,682. Household median income in Silver Spring is $88,274, and the individual median income is $44,182. Silver Spring’s Ethnic is the following: White(40.3%), Black(28.8%), Hispanic(26%), Other(18%), Asian(7.1%), Multiple(5.4%), Native(0.3%).

Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, in practice it is an edge city, with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.Downtown, next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most urbanized part of the community, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway.

Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004.Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who subsequently bought much of the surrounding land. Acorn Park, south of downtown, is believed to be the site of the original spring.

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