About Woodbine

Woodbine is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 7,471 people and just one neighborhood, Woodbine is the 149th largest community in Maryland.

Woodbine is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Woodbine is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodbine who work in management occupations (13.60%), sales jobs (11.16%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.37%).

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

In addition, Woodbine 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, Woodbine is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Woodbine a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Woodbine has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Woodbine's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Woodbine is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Woodbine, the average commute to work is 35.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Woodbine 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 Woodbine, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.48% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Woodbine 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.

Woodbine Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Woodbine citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.33% of adults in Woodbine have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Woodbine in 2000 was $28,113, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,452 for a family of four. However, Woodbine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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