What’s actually for sale in 21904 right now
Current listings tracked by regional real estate portals span a wide range, from sub-$100,000 fixer-uppers and manufactured-home lots to seven-figure acreage parcels. Grouping the observed inventory by price band:
| Price band | What’s in it | Notable condition |
|---|---|---|
| Under $150,000 | Small 2–3 bedroom homes under 1,300 sq ft, several in manufactured-home clusters | Includes lots on Wildwood Lane and Sandybrook Drive priced $37,000 to $90,000 |
| $150,000–$350,000 | The bulk of the market – 3-bedroom single-family homes, 1,000 to 2,000 sq ft | Snapshot median list price and $/sqft figures cluster here |
| $350,000–$800,000 | Larger or renovated single-family homes, some waterfront-adjacent addresses | Includes a condo-style unit carrying a $650 monthly HOA fee |
| Over $800,000 | Land and acreage parcels, 30 to 82 acres | Two listings alone total roughly $6.9 million in raw land value |
The land-parcel tier is the part a bed/bath filter hides: two of the 28 active listings are undeveloped acreage, not homes, and they pull any average price calculation for the ZIP upward if you don’t separate them out.
Does 21904 have any new construction? The active inventory observed in July 2026 skews toward older stock, with no new-construction subdivisions currently active inside 21904 itself. New-build activity in this corridor is concentrated in neighboring North East and Rising Sun ZIP codes instead.
Why Redfin and Movoto disagree on the trend
Movoto’s own page disagrees with itself in a smaller way, too: its market snapshot module states 46 median days on Movoto, while its FAQ text states 47. Neither error is large alone; together they suggest these snapshot numbers refresh on different schedules without being cross-checked before publishing.
Is now a good time to buy or sell in Port Deposit? The portals disagree with each other on direction, so neither claim should drive a decision alone. What’s stable across both: current list prices cluster in the $250,000 to $310,000 range for a typical single-family home, and homes sit on the market for six to seven weeks rather than selling immediately.
The Bainbridge Logistics Center and what it means for property values
Current use
Port Deposit sits next to the former U.S. Naval Training Center Bainbridge, a 1,200-acre site that closed in 1976 and sat largely dormant for decades before redevelopment began. Phase 1, the Bainbridge Logistics Center, is a 440-acre project led by MRP Industrial and Hillwood, built out to four or five Class A industrial buildings totaling more than 3.7 million square feet along Jacob Tome Memorial Highway. Ryder Supply Chain Solutions confirmed in late 2025 that it had become the first tenant, operating out of 200 Powers Road. A second phase is planned for a land-based salmon farming operation under the AquaCon name; permitting for that use was still in progress as of late 2025.
Traffic and infrastructure
The Bainbridge Development Corporation, the state-created entity that oversaw the site’s environmental cleanup and transfer, states on its own site that it no longer owns or operates the parcels now built out as the Logistics Center. Those were sold to private developers, and BDC has no authority over tenant operations or truck routing there. Local residents have raised concerns about increased truck traffic on Port Deposit’s roads, and Cecil County government is coordinating with Ryder, local police, and the Maryland State Highway Administration on signage and routing. Separately, the Town of Port Deposit is considering Annexation Resolution 11-2026, which would bring an additional 34 acres of the Bainbridge property inside town limits; a public hearing is scheduled for August 4, 2026, so it had not been finalized as of this writing. Infrastructure has already been sized for growth: the town’s wastewater treatment plant, rebuilt in 2021 at a cost of roughly $10.5 million, runs at 150,000 gallons per day and can expand to 250,000 gallons per day to serve the former Bainbridge site as it develops.
Will the Bainbridge Logistics Center affect home values in 21904? No portal currently prices this in. Buyers evaluating long-term land use and noise exposure should weigh proximity to Jacob Tome Memorial Highway and Powers Road specifically, since that’s where the buildout, the tenant activity, and the traffic concerns are concentrated, not the ZIP code as a whole.
Rural infrastructure quirks unique to this ZIP
Manufactured-home clusters
Several of the lowest-priced active listings, including addresses on Wildwood Lane and Sandybrook Drive, sit within manufactured-home communities rather than on conventionally deeded single-family lots. Communities like these typically carry lot rent or park-approval terms separate from the purchase price; that pattern is inferred from the pricing and unit sizes observed in current listings, not confirmed on a listing-by-listing basis, so buyers should verify the specific arrangement directly with the listing agent before assuming the sale price is the full cost of ownership.
Water, sewer, and septic
Inside the historic town core, water service comes from Artesian and wastewater from Cecil County’s public system, rebuilt in 2021 with room to expand as the Bainbridge area grows. Beyond the incorporated town’s small footprint, where much of 21904’s land area sits, private well and septic systems are common, as they are throughout unincorporated Cecil County. Whether a given parcel is on public or private utilities depends on whether it sits inside the tiny town boundary or the surrounding rural ZIP, not on the ZIP code alone.
Waterfront and flood exposure
Port Deposit’s Main Street corridor and its former wastewater treatment plant sat inside the Susquehanna River’s mapped 100-year floodplain for decades – a documented reason the county relocated the new treatment plant outside it in 2021. Any listing on or near Main Street or the riverfront should be evaluated for flood-insurance requirements individually, parcel by parcel, through FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center; this page cannot state a single flood-zone letter that applies townwide.
| Condition | What it means | Who should pay attention |
|---|---|---|
| Manufactured-home lot | Purchase price may exclude land-lease or park-approval terms | First-time buyers, cash buyers targeting the sub-$150K tier |
| Well and septic (outside town core) | No monthly water/sewer bill, but inspection and maintenance costs fall on the owner | Buyers of rural or outlying 21904 parcels |
| Riverfront or Main Street address | Possible 100-year floodplain exposure, historically documented for this corridor | Waterfront buyers, anyone financing with a federally backed mortgage |
| Large acreage/land parcel | No structure to inspect; value is driven by zoning and access, not comparable sales | Investors and land buyers |
The town line, not the ZIP code, is what actually decides whether a given 21904 address gets a monthly utility bill or a well pump to maintain.
Which ZIP and town boundaries actually apply to your address
21904 has its own distinct postal boundary, separate from the neighboring 21911 (Rising Sun), 21917 (Colora), and 21918 (Conowingo) ZIP codes, per USPS-derived ZIP boundary data. Bainbridge Elementary, the public school serving this area, sits at 41 Preston Drive inside 21904 itself.
Does 21904 cover all of “Port Deposit”? Not exactly. The incorporated Town of Port Deposit is a small footprint around Main Street; 21904 is a much larger postal delivery area extending well beyond the town line, and some addresses physically close to the town carry a neighboring ZIP name instead. Confirm which jurisdiction and school zone actually applies to a specific parcel rather than assuming from the ZIP code alone.
What this means for land buyers and investors
Two of the current 28 listings are raw acreage parcels priced at $650,000 for 33 acres and $6,250,000 for 82 acres – together, over a third of the ZIP’s total listed dollar value sits in undeveloped land, not housing stock. That skews any simple average price calculation for 21904, on top of the trend-percentage problem described above. I could not independently verify current rental rates for tenant-occupied properties in this ZIP from a primary source; income-property investors should confirm comparable rents directly with a local property manager or Bright MLS rental data before underwriting a purchase here, rather than relying on any figure not sourced above.
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