Upper Marlboro is a tiny coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 646 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Upper Marlboro is the 291st largest community in Maryland.

Upper Marlboro is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Upper Marlboro is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Upper Marlboro who work in office and administrative support jobs (23.67%), management occupations (9.76%), and computer science and math (7.69%).

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

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Upper Marlboro 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 Upper Marlboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Upper Marlboro, the average commute to work is 38.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Upper Marlboro 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.

Upper Marlboro Information and Demographics

The education level of Upper Marlboro citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 28.21% of adults in Upper Marlboro have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Upper Marlboro in 2000 was $28,892, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,568 for a family of four. However, Upper Marlboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Upper Marlboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include French Creole and Spanish.