Ellerslie - Corriganville is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,825 people and just one neighborhood, Ellerslie - Corriganville is the 202nd largest community in Maryland.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ellerslie - Corriganville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ellerslie - Corriganville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellerslie - Corriganville who work in office and administrative support (11.13%), healthcare (11.03%), and food service (10.81%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ellerslie - Corriganville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ellerslie - Corriganville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ellerslie - Corriganville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ellerslie - Corriganville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Ellerslie - Corriganville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Ellerslie - Corriganville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.65% of adults in Ellerslie - Corriganville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Ellerslie - Corriganville in 2022 was $30,114, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,456 for a family of four. However, Ellerslie - Corriganville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ellerslie - Corriganville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellerslie - Corriganville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ellerslie - Corriganville include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Ellerslie - Corriganville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Slavic languages.
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 Ellerslie - Corriganville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With more than 2.0% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.9% have Iranian ancestry.
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 Ellerslie - Corriganville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.2% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.7%), and 19.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.7%).
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 Ellerslie - Corriganville, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (65.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.