Kitzmiller is a tiny town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 293 people and just one neighborhood, Kitzmiller is the 264th largest community in Maryland. Much of the housing stock in Kitzmiller was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Kitzmiller, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.75% of Kitzmiller’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kitzmiller is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kitzmiller who work in office and administrative support (10.45%), management occupations (7.46%), and maintenance occupations (5.97%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.45% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Kitzmiller has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kitzmiller a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Kitzmiller, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.21 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Kitzmiller does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Kitzmiller has a very low overall level of education: only 9.03% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Kitzmiller in 2022 was $28,518, which is low income relative to Maryland, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,072 for a family of four. However, Kitzmiller contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Kitzmiller home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kitzmiller residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Kitzmiller include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Kitzmiller is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and French.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Kitzmiller are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.8% 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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.1%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Kitzmiller, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.