About St. Michaels

St. Michaels is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,176 people and just one neighborhood, St. Michaels is the 276th largest community in Maryland.

St. Michaels is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, St. Michaels is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Michaels who work in sales jobs (12.47%), office and administrative support jobs (9.05%), and food service (8.85%).

A relatively large number of people in St. Michaels telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.63% 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.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of St. Michaels are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

St. Michaels 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.

St. Michaels Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, St. Michaels is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.44% of adults in St. Michaels have a college degree.

The per capita income in St. Michaels in 2000 was $28,131, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,524 for a family of four.

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

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