Indian Head is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,025 people and two associated neighborhoods, Indian Head is the 145th largest community in Maryland.Indian Head is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.74% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Indian Head is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Indian Head who work in office and administrative support (14.37%), sales jobs (13.48%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.07%). Also of interest is that Indian Head 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: 12.55% 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. In Indian Head, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.19 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. Despite being a small town, Indian Head 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.In terms of college education, Indian Head is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.16% of adults 25 and older in Indian Head have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Indian Head in 2022 was $39,761, which is lower middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,044 for a family of four. However, Indian Head contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Indian Head is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Indian Head home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Indian Head residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Indian Head include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Indian Head is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.