Seat Pleasant is a very small city located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,518 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: 23.35% 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.

In Seat Pleasant, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.49 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.

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.

The education level of Seat Pleasant citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.33% of adults in Seat Pleasant have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Seat Pleasant in 2022 was $35,716, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,864 for a family of four. However, Seat Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Seat Pleasant is a very 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 20.43% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Seat Pleasant include African, Nigerian, European, Jamaican, and German.

In addition, Seat Pleasant has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.06%).

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