Population & Demographics
Silver Spring, MD
Silver Spring is home to 81,462 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 35,915 resident workers commute each day.
81,462 residents
Median age 35.6 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
Silver Spring population & demographics
Who lives in Silver Spring — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in Silver Spring
How Silver Spring breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across Silver Spring
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Silver Spring.
These figures are for Silver Spring proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Silver Spring commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
Silver Spring
35,915 commutes, one dot at a time
Silver Spring
Where 35,915 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Silver Spring, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Silver Spring.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Silver Spring’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Internet options for Silver Spring
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).