In Lanham, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.86 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Lanham who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.26% of adults in Lanham have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lanham in 2018 was $33,272, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,088 for a family of four. However, Lanham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lanham is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lanham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lanham residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Asian. Lanham also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.48% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lanham include Haitian, Nigerian, African, Other Subsaharan African, and Jamaican.
Lanham also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 39.78%.
The most common language spoken in Lanham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
