Bowie is a medium-sized city located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 49,866 people and 12 constituent neighborhoods, Bowie is the 13th largest community in Maryland.

Bowie is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.92% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bowie is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowie who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.45%), management occupations (12.55%), and sales jobs (9.43%).

Also of interest is that Bowie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Bowie is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Bowie is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Bowie really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bowie perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Bowie, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.66 minutes every day commuting to work.

Bowie Information and Demographics

The citizens of Bowie are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.98% of adults in Bowie have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bowie in 2000 was $30,703, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,812 for a family of four. However, Bowie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bowie is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bowie home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bowie is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bowie include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Bowie is English. Some people also speak Spanish.