Oxon Hill is a medium-sized town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 18,791 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Oxon Hill is the 55th largest community in Maryland.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oxon Hill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oxon Hill is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oxon Hill who work in management occupations (11.19%), business and financial occupations (10.09%), and office and administrative support (9.46%). Also of interest is that Oxon Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.73% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. In Oxon Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.12 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. Even though Oxon Hill is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.In terms of college education, Oxon Hill is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.36% of adults in Oxon Hill have a college degree. The per capita income in Oxon Hill in 2022 was $44,838, 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 $179,352 for a family of four. However, Oxon Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Oxon Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oxon Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oxon Hill residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Asian. Oxon Hill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oxon Hill include Jamaican, African, Irish, English, and German. In addition, Oxon Hill has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.31%). The most common language spoken in Oxon Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
