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Seat Pleasant, MD
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Living in Seat Pleasant



Seat Pleasant is a very small city located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,462 people and two associated neighborhoods, Seat Pleasant is the 131st largest community in Maryland.

Also of interest is that Seat Pleasant 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: 11.24% 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.

One downside of living in Seat Pleasant is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Seat Pleasant, the average commute to work is 34.27 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the city, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

For a small city, Seat Pleasant has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the subway. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Seat Pleasant exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

In terms of college education, Seat Pleasant is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.75% of adults 25 and older in Seat Pleasant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Seat Pleasant in 2022 was $36,959, 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 $147,836 for a family of four. However, Seat Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Seat Pleasant is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Seat Pleasant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seat Pleasant residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Asian. Seat Pleasant also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.35% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Seat Pleasant include Nigerian, African, Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Jamaican, and German.

The most common language spoken in Seat Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.


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