Piney Point - Tall Timbers is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,827 people and just one neighborhood, Piney Point - Tall Timbers is the 125th largest community in Maryland.
Piney Point - Tall Timbers is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.87% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Piney Point - Tall Timbers is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Piney Point - Tall Timbers who work in management occupations (16.85%), teaching (10.96%), and architecture and engineering (9.94%).
Also of interest is that Piney Point - Tall Timbers has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Piney Point - Tall Timbers telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.06% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
In addition, Piney Point - Tall Timbers is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.
Because of many things, Piney Point - Tall Timbers is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Piney Point - Tall Timbers a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Piney Point - Tall Timbers has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Piney Point - Tall Timbers’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Piney Point - Tall Timbers does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Piney Point - Tall Timbers is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 44.13% of adults in Piney Point - Tall Timbers have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Piney Point - Tall Timbers in 2022 was $54,461, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $217,844 for a family of four.
Piney Point - Tall Timbers is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Piney Point - Tall Timbers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Piney Point - Tall Timbers residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Piney Point - Tall Timbers include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Piney Point - Tall Timbers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian 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 Piney Point - Tall Timbers, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 21.2% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.2% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% 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 Piney Point - Tall Timbers are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 88.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.2% 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, 66.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.1%), and 12.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.7%).
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 Piney Point - Tall Timbers, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report English roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.