About Travilah

Travilah is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 7,549 people and just one neighborhood, Travilah is the 145th largest community in Maryland.

Travilah is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.85% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Travilah is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Travilah who work in management occupations (23.13%), sales jobs (13.29%), and healthcare (10.41%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 12.09% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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 addition, Travilah 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, Travilah 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, Travilah really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Travilah 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.

In Travilah, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.03 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Travilah 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.

Travilah Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Travilah, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Travilah is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 74.43% 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 Travilah in 2000 was $77,129, which is wealthy relative to Maryland and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $308,516 for a family of four. However, Travilah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Travilah is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Travilah home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Travilah is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Travilah include Irish, English, German, Russian, Italian, European, Polish, and Iranian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Travilah's cultural character, accounting for 21.33% of the town's population.

The languages spoken by people in Travilah are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Travilah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, Other Indic languages, and Korean.