Cottage City is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,298 people and just one neighborhood, Cottage City is the 216th largest community in Maryland. Cottage City has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cottage City is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cottage City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottage City who work in office and administrative support (13.53%), food service (9.90%), and management occupations (9.90%).
Also of interest is that Cottage City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Cottage City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.24% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One downside of living in Cottage City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cottage City, the average commute to work is 38.74 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.
In Cottage City, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Cottage City is a relatively small town. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
The education level of Cottage City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.00% of adults in Cottage City have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cottage City in 2022 was $40,001, which is lower middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,004 for a family of four. However, Cottage City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cottage City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottage City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Cottage City, accounting for 44.84% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cottage City residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cottage City include Irish, Nigerian, German, Other Subsaharan African, and African.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Cottage City's cultural character, accounting for 49.60% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Cottage City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cottage City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dominican and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 1.6% have Haitian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cottage City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 49.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and French.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cottage City, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.6%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (4.1%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 41.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (55.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.0%) and 7.7% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.