Ellerslie - Corriganville is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,827 people and just one neighborhood, Ellerslie - Corriganville is the 202nd largest community in Maryland.
Unlike some towns, Ellerslie - Corriganville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ellerslie - Corriganville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ellerslie - Corriganville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellerslie - Corriganville who work in office and administrative support (11.13%), healthcare (11.03%), and food service (10.81%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ellerslie - Corriganville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ellerslie - Corriganville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Ellerslie - Corriganville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ellerslie - Corriganville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.65% of adults 25 and older in Ellerslie - Corriganville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Ellerslie - Corriganville in 2022 was $30,114, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,456 for a family of four. However, Ellerslie - Corriganville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ellerslie - Corriganville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellerslie - Corriganville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ellerslie - Corriganville include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Ellerslie - Corriganville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Slavic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
With more than 2.0% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.9% have Iranian ancestry.
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 Ellerslie - Corriganville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.7%), and 19.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.7%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Ellerslie - Corriganville, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (65.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.