About Mays Chapel

Mays Chapel is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 11,422 people and just one neighborhood, Mays Chapel is the 113rd largest community in Maryland.

Mays Chapel is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.90% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mays Chapel is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mays Chapel who work in management occupations (16.74%), sales jobs (16.65%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.12%).

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

For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Mays Chapel. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Mays Chapel.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Mays Chapel is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Mays Chapel is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Mays Chapel isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.62% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Mays Chapel is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Mays Chapel Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Mays Chapel, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Mays Chapel is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 60.89% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Mays Chapel in 2000 was $41,086, which is wealthy relative to Maryland and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,344 for a family of four. However, Mays Chapel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mays Chapel home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mays Chapel is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mays Chapel include Irish, German, English, Italian, Polish, Scottish, and Russian.

The most common language spoken in Mays Chapel is English. Some people also speak Korean.