Lusby is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 2,072 people and three associated neighborhoods, Lusby is the 194th largest community in Maryland.Lusby is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lusby is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lusby who work in sales jobs (16.92%), business and financial occupations (10.86%), and architecture and engineering (10.52%). Also of interest is that Lusby 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: 11.84% 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 of the nice things about Lusby is that it is nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities. One downside of living in Lusby is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lusby, the average commute to work is 34.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Lusby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Lusby who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.11% of the adults in Lusby have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Lusby in 2022 was $50,075, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $200,300 for a family of four. However, Lusby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lusby is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lusby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lusby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lusby include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Lusby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
