Capitol Heights is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,038 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Capitol Heights is the 142nd largest community in Maryland.

Of important note, Capitol Heights is also a town of artists. Capitol Heights has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Capitol Heights’s character.

Also of interest is that Capitol Heights 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: 7.56% 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.

In Capitol Heights, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.52 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, Capitol Heights 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 adults in Capitol Heights who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.46% of the adults in Capitol Heights have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Capitol Heights in 2022 was $42,417, 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 $169,668 for a family of four. However, Capitol Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Capitol Heights is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Capitol Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Capitol Heights residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Capitol Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.03% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Capitol Heights include Jamaican, Guyanese, Ghanian, African, and Other Subsaharan African.

Capitol Heights also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.54%.

The most common language spoken in Capitol Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.