Landover Hills is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,764 people and just one neighborhood, Landover Hills is the 203rd largest community in Maryland.
When you are in Landover Hills, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.27% of Landover Hills’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Landover Hills is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Landover Hills who work in maintenance occupations (8.91%), management occupations (8.91%), and office and administrative support (8.50%).
One downside of living in Landover Hills, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.81 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
In Landover Hills, a lot of people use the subway to get to work every day though Landover Hills is a relatively small town. Those that ride the subway are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Landover Hills rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.59% of adults 25 and older in Landover Hills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Landover Hills in 2022 was $34,857, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,428 for a family of four. However, Landover Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Landover Hills is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Landover Hills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Landover Hills, accounting for 63.88% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Landover Hills residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Landover Hills include German, English, African, Irish, and Nigerian.
Landover Hills also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 34.97%.
The most common language spoken in Landover Hills is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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.
Most neighborhoods have a mixture of ages of homes in them, from new to old, but this neighborhood stands out due to its concentration of residential real estate built in one time frame: from 1940 through 1969, generally considered older, well-established homes. This was a busy time in America for home construction. After the end of World War II, as GIs came home, bought newly built homes on the edges of cities with the help of the GI Bill, and began their families. This housing era generally coincides with the 'Baby Boom' generation (1945 - 1964), and many baby boomers grew up in homes built in this era. But what is so interesting about the neighborhood, is that an incredible 88.0% of the homes here were built in this era. So when you walk its streets or drive through, this neighborhood has a look and feel that harkens to that era in American life, a very important slice of Americana.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Landover Hills are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 69.6% of America'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, 34.0% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 8.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 57.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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 Landover Hills, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (4.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 38.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (69.6%) 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 (10.3%) and 6.7% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.