Oxon Hill is a medium-sized town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 18,791 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Oxon Hill is the 55th largest community in Maryland.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oxon Hill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oxon Hill is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oxon Hill who work in management occupations (10.92%), office and administrative support (10.23%), and business and financial occupations (9.75%). Also of interest is that Oxon Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.33% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. One downside of living in Oxon Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oxon Hill, the average commute to work is 37.07 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. Even though Oxon Hill is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.In terms of college education, Oxon Hill is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.18% of adults in Oxon Hill have a college degree. The per capita income in Oxon Hill in 2022 was $44,670, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,680 for a family of four. However, Oxon Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Oxon Hill is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oxon Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oxon Hill residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Oxon Hill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.99% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oxon Hill include Jamaican, Irish, African, English, and German. Oxon Hill also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.34%. The most common language spoken in Oxon Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
