Town · Talbot County, Maryland

Trappe, Maryland

Trappe is a town in Talbot County, Maryland, part of the Easton, MD metro area. It has 1,055 residents. Trappe, Maryland has a quality-of-life score of 69 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,802 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Maryland it ranks #150 of 334 cities and towns. It ranks best on preventable hospital stays (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (high) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), average commute time (high) and bachelor's degree or higher (low).

69High

Quality-of-life score: #4,802 of 15,651 cities and towns
Maryland: #150 of 334 in MD
Population: 1,055 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 392.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 2478575

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety60#6,299/15,637
Economy41#9,266/15,631
Housing52#7,172/14,977
Health75#3,948/15,609
Healthcare93#1,027/15,650
Environment76#3,761/15,453
Education48#8,180/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,721/15,650
Community65#5,471/15,651
Leisure & amenities99#172/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Trappe, Maryland ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Talbot 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

Preventable hospital stays · low1,544 /100k
96/100Maryland 2,655 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTalbot County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high10.5 /10k
96/100Maryland 5.0 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTalbot County value
New homes permitted · high18.0 /1k
95/100Maryland 2.1 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Restaurants and bars · high14.4 /10k
94/100Maryland 7.2 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTalbot County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Maryland 6.0 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataTalbot County value
Grocery stores · high2.9 /10k
93/100Maryland 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTalbot County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high9.0%
12/100Maryland 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Average commute time · high23.1 min
13/100Maryland 31.0 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Bachelor's degree or higher · low16.2%
25/100Maryland 43.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Broadband subscriptions · low85.0%
26/100Maryland 92.4%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Dental care shortage · high15.0
26/100Maryland 5.0United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationTalbot County value
Public transit commuters · low0.0%
27/100Maryland 4.2%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,200 (2015-2019) → 1,055 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
5.5 /1k (2021) → 18.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+230%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
34.9% (2015-2019) → 52.7% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.4% (2015-2019) → 35.3% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.4% (2015-2019) → 85.0% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.9% (2015-2019) → 6.0% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Trappe, Maryland improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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.

Improved2

Uninsured−8.9 points14.9% → 6.0%
Broadband+12 points73.4% → 85.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Trappe, Maryland between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.7 min2015-2019	23.1 min2020-2024	−0.6 min	Within the margin of error	55%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.6%2015-2019	16.2%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Broadband subscriptions	73.4%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	67%
Effective property tax rate	0.64%2015-2019	0.58%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
High school diploma or higher	88.5%2015-2019	94.2%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3262015-2019	0.3952020-2024	+0.069	Within the margin of error	10%
Median household income	$65,6642015-2019	$60,9172020-2024	−7.2%	Within the margin of error	4%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	23.4%2015-2019	35.3%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.9%2015-2019	6.0%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Improved	95%

“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 Trappe, Maryland five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Trappe, 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.

For comparison, Trappe, Maryland itself moved −14.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,055 residents (±273)

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

446 households (±115)

Trappe, Maryland
Maryland share

Under $25k13%†58
$25k–50k30%†132
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

446 households (±115)

Trappe, Maryland
Maryland share

Own64%287
Rent36%†159

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

505 workers (±158)

Trappe, Maryland
Maryland share

Drive alone80%†406
Carpool3.6%†18
Public transit

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 Easton, MD

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 Talbot County, the county holding most of Trappe's residents.

Talbot County has 1,468 employer establishments, 386 for every 10,000 residents (1.56× the US rate of 248; 1.68× Maryland's), with 17,567 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,961. The Census Bureau also counts 4,704 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,468; 4,704 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 386; US 248 · Maryland 230
Paid employees: 17,567
Average annual pay: $54,961; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	141	37.1	1.78×More than typical	1,470	$85,235	206
Specialty trade contractors	102	26.8	1.73×More than typical	788	$55,632	322
Restaurants and other eating places	92	24.2	1.32×More than typical	1,597	$26,368	13
Lessors of real estate	70	18.4	1.49×More than typical	176	$62,057	670
Construction of buildings	64	16.8	2.23×More than typical	258	$59,911	160
Offices of physicians	63	16.6	2.56×More than typical	611	$128,419	40
Services to buildings and dwellings	59	15.5	2.30×More than typical	529	$44,342	409
Full-service restaurants	52	13.7	1.78×More than typical	914	$30,023	5
Landscaping services	39	10.3	2.93×More than typical	337	$50,154	158
Building equipment contractors	36	9.5	1.57×More than typical	332	$56,235	39
Automotive repair and maintenance	32	8.4	1.67×More than typical	199	$44,372	44
Legal services	32	8.4	1.57×More than typical	144	$90,125	51

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 38,019 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Trappe, Maryland: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

36FY2017
1.9KFY2022

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Trappe, Maryland, so they do not add up across cities.

Trappe, Maryland's figures are part of those of Talbot County, MD ($82.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Talbot 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.

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

House

Andy HarrisR-MD-1 · 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.

Talbot County84100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Easton, MD89

Other cities and towns in Talbot 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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