Stevensville is a somewhat small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 5,882 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Stevensville is the 167th largest community in Maryland.

Stevensville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Stevensville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stevensville who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.98%), sales jobs (11.28%), and management occupations (9.26%).

Because of many things, Stevensville 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, Stevensville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Stevensville 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.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Stevensville 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.

One downside of living in Stevensville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.94 minutes every day commuting to work.

Stevensville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Stevensville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.51% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Stevensville 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.

Stevensville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Stevensville 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: 25.57% of adults in Stevensville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Stevensville in 2000 was $23,887, 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 $95,548 for a family of four. However, Stevensville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Stevensville is English.