Owings Mills is a medium-sized town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 35,674 people and 11 associated neighborhoods, Owings Mills is the 27th largest community in Maryland.Unlike some towns, Owings Mills isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Owings Mills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Owings Mills is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Owings Mills who work in office and administrative support (11.24%), business and financial occupations (9.95%), and management occupations (8.57%). Also of interest is that Owings Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. One downside of living in Owings Mills is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Owings Mills, the average commute to work is 31.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative. Like elsewhere in America, most people in Owings Mills use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Owings Mills‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the subway. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.The education level of Owings Mills ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Owings Mills, 43.54% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree. The per capita income in Owings Mills in 2022 was $45,609, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,436 for a family of four. However, Owings Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Owings Mills is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Owings Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Owings Mills residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Owings Mills also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.17% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Owings Mills include German, Irish, African, Nigerian, and English. Foreign born people are also an important part of Owings Mills's cultural character, accounting for 19.14% of the town’s population. The most common language spoken in Owings Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
