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Grasonville, MD

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Overview


Grasonville is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 3,474 people and just one neighborhood, Grasonville is the 156th largest community in Maryland. Much of the housing stock in Grasonville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Grasonville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Grasonville, where the median household income is $109,375.00.

Housing costs in Grasonville are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Maryland.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Grasonville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Grasonville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grasonville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grasonville who work in sales jobs (19.76%), food service (9.00%), and management occupations (8.14%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Grasonville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.82% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Grasonville is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

One downside of living in Grasonville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.81 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Grasonville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.90% of adults in Grasonville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Grasonville in 2018 was $45,736, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,944 for a family of four. However, Grasonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Grasonville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Grasonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grasonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grasonville include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Grasonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.7%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Grasonville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.7% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.9%), and 10.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Grasonville, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (13.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (77.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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