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Spring Gap is a tiny town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 52 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Gap is the 277th largest community in Maryland.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Spring Gap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 67.86% of Spring Gap’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spring Gap is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Gap who work in healthcare suport services (32.14%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Spring Gap is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Spring Gap has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Spring Gap has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spring Gap than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spring Gap may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Spring Gap spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 11.25 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Spring Gap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
Spring Gap ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Spring Gap in 2022 was $19,750, which is low income relative to Maryland and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,000 for a family of four. Spring Gap also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.33% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Spring Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Gap residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Spring Gap include Ukrainian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
In addition, Spring Gap has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (50.00%).
The most common language spoken in Spring Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Slavic languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
People
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Maryland, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Maryland, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.3% of neighborhoods in MD. If a Maryland retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
The Neighbors
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 Spring Gap are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 29.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
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 English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Spring Gap, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (88.4%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
