In Capitol Heights, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.90 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
Despite being a small town, Capitol Heights has a lot of people using the subway to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the subway are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
The citizens of Capitol Heights are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 17.00% of adults in Capitol Heights have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Capitol Heights in 2022 was $41,573, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,292 for a family of four. However, Capitol Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Capitol Heights is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Capitol Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Capitol Heights residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Capitol Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.07% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Capitol Heights include Jamaican, Guyanese, Ghanian, Italian, and Greek.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Capitol Heights's cultural character, accounting for 15.47% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Capitol Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
