In New Carrollton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.39 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 city, New Carrollton 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 percentage of people in New Carrollton who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.36% of adults in New Carrollton have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in New Carrollton in 2022 was $33,170, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,680 for a family of four. However, New Carrollton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Carrollton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Carrollton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Carrollton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. New Carrollton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.38% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in New Carrollton include African, Nigerian, Other Subsaharan African, Jamaican, and Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of New Carrollton's cultural character, accounting for 39.00% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in New Carrollton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
