Census-designated place · Allegany County, Maryland

Bowmans Addition, Maryland

Bowmans Addition is a census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metro area. It has 1,102 residents. Bowmans Addition, Maryland has a quality-of-life score of 30 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,019 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Maryland it ranks #301 of 334 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), distance to an Amtrak station (low) and pharmacies (high). It ranks worst on job growth (low), new business applications (low) and homicide rate (high).

30Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,019 of 15,651 cities and towns
Maryland: #301 of 334 in MD
Population: 1,102 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 981.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2408862

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety31#10,793/15,637
Economy41#9,199/15,631
Housing68#4,728/14,977
Health9#14,140/15,609
Healthcare37#9,925/15,650
Environment78#3,322/15,453
Education40#9,376/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,041/15,650
Community25#11,686/15,651
Leisure & amenities47#8,329/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bowmans Addition, Maryland ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Allegany County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Social associations · high15.8 /10k
93/100Maryland 8.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAllegany County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
93/100Maryland 13 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauAllegany County value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
91/100Maryland 1.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAllegany County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.3×
85/100Maryland 4.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.4 µg/m³
84/100Maryland 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAllegany County value
Unemployment rate · low1.9%
84/100Maryland 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Job growth · low-4.9%
2/100Maryland -1.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataAllegany County value
New business applications · low6.9 /1k
2/100Maryland 16.2 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauAllegany County value
Homicide rate · high14.9 /100k
3/100Maryland 6.0 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataAllegany County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low5.7%
5/100Maryland 43.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100Maryland 7.1United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationAllegany County value
Drug overdose deaths · high32.7 /100k
6/100Maryland 21.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataAllegany County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
571 (2015-2019) → 1,102 (2020-2024)
+93%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
8.6% (2015-2019) → 68.9% (2020-2024)
+60 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
35.1% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−35 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$32,457 (2015-2019) → $82,475 (2020-2024)
+154%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateWorsening
18.0% (2015-2019) → 29.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
10.2% (2015-2019) → 1.9% (2020-2024)
−8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bowmans Addition, Maryland improved on 1 of 6 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+154%$32,457 → $82,475

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 6 measures

Change of every measure of Bowmans Addition, Maryland between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	77.9%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	97.6%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	−7.8 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	−1.0×	Within the margin of error	98%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4202015-2019	0.3612020-2024	−0.058	Within the margin of error	87%
Median household income	$32,4572015-2019	$82,4752020-2024	+154%	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bowmans Addition, Maryland five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bowmans Addition, Maryland in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Bowmans Addition, Maryland five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Bowmans Addition, Maryland itself moved +12.1 points in standing on average over the same 5 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,102 residents (±471)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

399 households (±155)

Bowmans Addition, Maryland
Maryland share

Under $25k29%†117
$25k–50k0.8%†3
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

399 households (±155)

Bowmans Addition, Maryland
Maryland share

Own83%†332
Rent17%†67

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

409 workers (±203)

Bowmans Addition, Maryland
Maryland share

Drive alone98%†400
Carpool0.0%0
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Cumberland, MD-WV

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Allegany County, the county holding most of Bowmans Addition's residents.

Allegany County has 1,430 employer establishments, 213 for every 10,000 residents (0.86× the US rate of 248; 0.93× Maryland's), with 21,366 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,283. The Census Bureau also counts 3,684 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,430; 3,684 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 213; US 248 · Maryland 230
Paid employees: 21,366
Average annual pay: $45,283; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Allegany County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	173	25.8	1.24×About typical	2,401	$78,373	209
Restaurants and other eating places	110	16.4	0.89×About typical	2,398	$20,026	19
Offices of physicians	80	11.9	1.84×More than typical	1,317	$99,461	30
Religious organizations	75	11.2	2.02×More than typical	357	$19,493	—
Limited-service restaurants	57	8.5	1.06×About typical	1,336	$19,287	3
Specialty trade contractors	57	8.5	0.55×Fewer than typical	555	$62,018	219
Full-service restaurants	46	6.9	0.89×About typical	999	$20,956	12
Construction of buildings	35	5.2	0.69×Fewer than typical	351	$58,436	131
Lessors of real estate	34	5.1	0.41×Fewer than typical	125	$33,688	352
Offices of other health practitioners	32	4.8	0.79×Fewer than typical	263	$46,331	110
Personal care services	31	4.6	0.97×About typical	181	$28,050	155
Services to buildings and dwellings	31	4.6	0.69×Fewer than typical	171	$28,304	200

Rank places for an industry Open Allegany County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 67,084 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $92.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bowmans Addition, Maryland: $84.30 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $92.9K; −55% vs FY2025
Per resident: $84.30; US $1,995
Sole-source: 54%; US 30%
Single offer: 4.2%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$67.6K73%
Departmental Offices$6,1456.6%
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$5,9626.4%
Federal Emergency Management Agency$3,6964.0%
Defense Health Agency$2,4932.7%
Department of the Army$1,9532.1%
Federal Bureau of Investigation$1,5531.7%
Office of the Chief Financial Officer$1,3751.5%

Top recipients

AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE, INC.$44.4K48%
CONSTELLATION NEWENERGY, INC.$12.8K14%
CARON EAST, INC.$10.9K12%
3M COMPANY$5,7686.2%
CORE ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS INC$5,3355.7%

Spending by fiscal year

138.6KFY2017
38.8KFY2018
77KFY2019
70.9KFY2020
63.4KFY2021
70.1KFY2022
81.7KFY2023
155.4K

Top industries (NAICS)

General medical and surgical hospitals · 6221$44.4K48%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$12.8K14%
Plastics product manufacturing · 3261$9,49710%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$6,1456.6%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container manufacturing · 3324$5,3355.7%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$4,616

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bowmans Addition, Maryland, so they do not add up across cities.

Bowmans Addition, Maryland's figures are part of those of Allegany County, MD ($11.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.8% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bowmans Addition is mostly in Allegany County.

See federal money in Allegany County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bowmans Addition, Maryland is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

April McClain DelaneyD-MD-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 2.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Allegany County49100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cumberland, MD-WV42

Other cities and towns in Allegany County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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