Pikesville, Maryland

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Pikesville, Maryland
Census-designated place
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The entrance to Pikesville High School, located at the intersection of Labyrinth Road and Smith Avenue.
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Location of Pikesville, Maryland
Coordinates: 39°22′45″N76°42′18″W / 39.37917°N 76.70500°W / 39.37917; -76.70500
CountryFlag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Maryland.svg  Maryland
County Flag of Baltimore County, Maryland.svg Baltimore
Area
[1]
 • Total12.38 sq mi (32.06 km2)
 • Land12.35 sq mi (31.99 km2)
 • Water0.03 sq mi (0.07 km2)
Elevation
509 ft (155 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total34,168
 • Density2,766.64/sq mi (1,068.21/km2)
Demonym Pikesvillian
Time zone UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP codes
21208, 21282,21209,21215
Area code(s) 410, 443, and 667
FIPS code 24-61400
GNIS feature ID0586509

Pikesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Pikesville is just northwest of the Baltimore city limits. It is the northwestern suburb closest to Baltimore.

Contents

The population was 30,764 at the 2010 census. [2] The corridor along Interstate 795, which links Pikesville, Owings Mills and Reisterstown to the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695), contains one of the larger Jewish populations in Maryland.

Geography

Pikesville is located at 39°22′45″N76°42′18″W / 39.37917°N 76.70500°W / 39.37917; -76.70500 (39.379039, −76.705091). [3]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 32.1 square kilometres (12.4 sq mi), of which 32.0 square kilometres (12.4 sq mi) is land and 0.07 square kilometres (0.027 sq mi), or 0.22%, is water. [4]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1960 18,737—
1970 24,15928.9%
1980 22,555−6.6%
1990 24,81510.0%
2000 29,12317.4%
2010 30,7645.6%
2020 34,16811.1%
[5]

As of the census [6] of 2010, there were 30,764 people and 13,642 households residing in the CDP. The population density was 2,490.8 people per square mile. There were 14,323 housing units. The racial makeup of the CDP was 77.0% White, 14.5% African American, 0.1% Native American, 6.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.7% of the population.

As of the 2000 census, there were 12,747 households, out of which 24.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 7.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.1% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.81.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 19.7% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.0 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $58,598, and the median income for a family was $78,002 (these figures had risen to $73,846 and $100,237 respectively as of a 2007 estimate [7] ). Males had a median income of $52,079 versus $37,179 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $41,035. About 5.0% of families and 6.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.4% of those under age 18 and 11.5% of those age 65 or over.

In 2000, 19.3% of Pikesville residents identified as being of Russian heritage. Virtually all of them are Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors immigrated from the Russian Empire. [8] In 2000, 3.7% of Pikesville residents identified as being of Ukrainian American heritage. This was the highest percentage of Ukrainian Americans of any place in Maryland. [9] 2% of the city were descended from Eastern European countries other than Russia and Ukraine. The majority of them are of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. 8% of Pikesville's residents were German, 7% Polish, 4% Irish, 3% English, and 2% Italian. [10]

Jewish community

In the 19th and early 20th centuries Jewish immigrants to the Baltimore area first formed enclaves in East Baltimore not far from Johns Hopkins Hospital in neighborhoods such as Broadway East, Jonestown, Middle East and Oliver. After World War II, the Jewish community moved outside of Baltimore City into Pikesville, a sleepy outpost on a major road that led to Western Maryland. During the Vietnam War, and exacerbated by riots in 1968, many Jewish businesses left northwestern Baltimore following this exodus.

Pikesville (and more recently its neighboring communities to the north, Owings Mills and Reisterstown) have been considered the center of the Baltimore area's Jewish community since the mid-1950s. Many of the region's largest and most established synagogues, Jewish schools, and kosher dining establishments are located in or near Pikesville.

History

Pikesville, Maryland, was named for the American soldier and explorer Zebulon Pike (1779–1813). While there are places named for Pike in many other states, Pikesville, Maryland, is the only contemporary place named "Pikesville" (compare, for example, Pike County and Pikeville, Kentucky).

The (historical) town of Pikesville, incorporated August, 1818, in Barren County, Kentucky, in Monroe County after 1820, was apparently named for Zebulon Pike, also. In 1858, the community adopted a new postal name, “Flippin, Kentucky,” to avoid confusion with Pikeville, Kentucky. “Pike[s]ville Branch” of Indian Creek is the only remaining physical landmark of historical Pikesville, in Kentucky, along with a colorful story of an almost forgotten past.

Education

Pikesville is served by several elementary, middle, and high schools and higher-education facilities:

Public

All public schools in Pikesville are part of the Baltimore County Public Schools system.

Independent

Higher education

Government

The Maryland State Police is headquartered at 1201 Reisterstown Road in the Pikesville CDP. [12] [13]

Transportation

Roads

Public transportation

The Baltimore Metro Subway runs through Pikesville, with two stops in the area, both named for the roads on which they are located: Milford Mill and Old Court.

Maryland Transit Administration bus routes serving Pikesville include nos. 83 and 89 on Reisterstown Road, 83 and 37 on Old Court Road, 85 on Milford Mill Road/Slade Avenue, and 34 and on Smith Avenue.

Notable people

Pikesville in national/international news

Vernon Lee Evans was a key figure in the battle against lethal injection in Maryland and other states. Prior to Maryland's outlawing of capital punishment in 2013, he and Anthony Grandison were on death row for the murders of two clerks at the Warren House Motel (currently a Howard Johnson) in Pikesville in 1983. Governor Martin O'Malley commuted both men's sentences in 2014, along with those of the other two men who were, at the time, on Maryland's death row. [18]

Ziad Jarrah, a suspected terrorist involved in the 9/11 attacks, was pulled over two days earlier for speeding in Pikesville. [19]

On April 25th, 2024, Dazhon Darien, the Athletic Director at Pikesville High School, was arrested on terms of falsifying an audio recording of the Principal making racist and antisemitic remarks using artificial intelligence. [20]

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