One downside of living in Bladensburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bladensburg, the average commute to work is 36.84 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.
Despite being a small town, Bladensburg has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
The citizens of Bladensburg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.65% of adults in Bladensburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bladensburg in 2022 was $26,009, 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 $104,036 for a family of four. However, Bladensburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bladensburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bladensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bladensburg residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Bladensburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.84% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bladensburg include African, Nigerian, Other Subsaharan African, Jamaican, and Liberian.
Bladensburg also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 34.29%.
The most common language spoken in Bladensburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
