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Hollywood, MD

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Overview


Hollywood is a somewhat small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 7,514 people and just one neighborhood, Hollywood is the 94th largest community in Maryland.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Hollywood isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hollywood are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hollywood is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hollywood who work in management occupations (19.97%), office and administrative support (13.40%), and business and financial occupations (7.98%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Hollywood is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Hollywood’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Hollywood, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.17 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Hollywood who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.55% of adults in Hollywood have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hollywood in 2018 was $46,959, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $187,836 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Hollywood, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hollywood are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 86.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 50.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 18.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

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 Hollywood, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.9%), and residents who report English roots (16.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (11.0%) . 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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