Essex, Maryland Essex, Maryland Location of Essex, Maryland Location of Essex, Maryland Essex is an unincorporated improve and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

Originally, Essex was ten blocks, running from Mace Avenue to Marlyn Avenue.

It was begun in 1909 by the Taylor Land Company for those inhabitants in Baltimore who wanted a place outside the town/city limits to perhaps expanded a garden or to pursue some other non-urban activity.

Henry Guttenberger assembled the first general store in Essex in 1910 on the corner of Eastern Avenue and Mace Avenue.

Between 1911 and 1912, the Taylor Land Company donated the lots for Essex Methodist and St.

Essex Community College, now CCBC-Essex, was established in 1957.

Today, there is interest in revitalizing the Essex region by including it in government-sponsored empowerment zones.

Many neighborhoods have begun a "clean-up" of their areas, hoping to transform Essex into a place that will be ready to move into the twenty-first century.

Improvements include removal of run-down, low-income housing, including the Tall Trees Community and the Riverdale Community; new medians and pavement on Eastern Avenue; a new single family home improve called Waterview; and the auctioning of Middle River Station for commercial area.

MD 43 Extended has opened which joins the old waterfront improve and Carroll Island region with the booming White Marsh commercial area.

On August 2, 2009, the improve of Essex jubilated its 100th birthday with a party at Cox's Point Park on Riverside Drive.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 11.9 square miles (30.8 km2), of which 9.3 square miles (24.0 km2) is territory and 2.6 square miles (6.8 km2), or 22.16%, is water. The town is on mostly flat to gently rolling terrain, transitioning to marshland close to the Chesapeake Bay.

In a recent press release from the Baltimore City Department of Public Works, the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant (aka.

Golden Eggs, the plant, etc.) is confirmed to be positioned in the Back River (Maryland) neighborhood of the town/city of Essex. In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $34,978, and the median income for a family was $42,177.

About 10.0% of families and 12.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 16.2% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.

"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Essex CDP, Maryland".

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Essex CDP, Maryland".

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