University of Maryland Eastern Shore · Photo: Honors Lane · CC BY-SA 3.0Princess Anne has higher family incomes than 70% of U.S. towns
Princess Anne grades C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Not counting college students, poverty touches 17.8% of residents, against 9.1% across Maryland. Working from home is the commute for 11% of workers, next to 19% for Maryland as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Princess Anne at work: what stands out
Princess Anne trades workers with the towns around it
Princess Anne has about as many jobs (1,116) as working residents (1,214), but they are mostly different people: 1,156 residents leave for work each day while 1,058 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Princess Anne are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Princess Anne are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 31 across Maryland. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maryland worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Princess Anne is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The figures behind Princess Anne’s Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Princess Anne is better than 43% of U.S. towns, #237 of 261 in Maryland. Family income holds Princess Anne’s grade up ($110,072, U.S. $99,999); the poverty rate pulls it down.
18% of Princess Anne’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 17.8%, against 22.7% for all residents. Unemployment (5.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($110,072), since student households pull the household median down ($69,116).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Princess Anne could be anywhere from D to A−.
Who leaves Princess Anne for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,156 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 1,058 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Princess Anne: about 20 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Princess Anne workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,495 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Maryland: 80% drive alone, 5% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Princess Anne
1,116 jobs are based in Princess Anne.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Princess Anne, 2013 → 2023: 1,102 → 1,116. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Princess Anne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
23% of working residents work in Salisbury
Where Princess Anne clocks in
23% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Princess Anne’s commute, mile by mile
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Princess Anne
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Princess Anne is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns, #118 of 261 in Maryland. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.0% across Maryland, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,679 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.9% of Princess Anne households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Princess Anne’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Princess Anne is 2,618th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Brown Station MD | 3,451 | $169K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Naval Academy MD | 3,006 | $122K | 1.5% | 4.4% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Chevy Chase MD | 2,804 | $250K | 2.0% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,616 | Newport Township PA | 4,518 | $58K | 17.4% | 1.9% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,617 | Vail CO | 4,407 | $99K | 6.4% | 7.4% | 40% | C+ |
| 2,618 | Princess Anne MD | 3,642 | $69K | 22.7% | 5.9% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,619 | Chittenango NY | 4,753 | $71K | 14.6% | 4.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,620 | Mercer Township IL | 3,841 | $71K | 12.3% | 3.5% | 39% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Princess Anne, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 18% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Princess Anne: questions
What is the median household income in Princess Anne?
$69,116 (±$8,332) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Princess Anne?
22.7% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 17.8%. Maryland: 9.4%.
How long is the commute from Princess Anne?
20 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Princess Anne work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salisbury (23%, 13 mi), Baltimore (3%, 90 mi), Fruitland (2%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Princess Anne walkable?
Princess Anne is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Princess Anne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Princess Anne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Princess Anne
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.