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Galestown town, Maryland: commercial real estate data.
Galestown town is a Census town of 114 people across 0.23 square miles of land, in Dorchester County. 77.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
47 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Galestown
What Galestown is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.23 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land486 plus or minus 239
- County holding the largest share of its areaDorchester County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Galestown
How many people live in Galestown
- Population114 plus or minus 56
- Median age42.1
- Population under 1827 plus or minus 21
- Share under 1823.7 percent plus or minus 14.0
- Population 65 and over20 plus or minus 18
- Share 65 and over17.5 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Households40 plus or minus 21
- Family households35 plus or minus 20
- Share of households that are families87.5 percent plus or minus 19.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Galestown
Income and work in Galestown
- Per capita income$25,454 plus or minus $10,070
- Civilian labor force47 plus or minus 27
- Employed43 plus or minus 25
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate8.5 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Adults 25 and over69 plus or minus 33
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.2 percent plus or minus 19.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.6 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.2 percent plus or minus 21.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Galestown
Housing in Galestown
- Housing units53 plus or minus 23
- Occupied units40 plus or minus 21
- Vacant units13 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate24.5 percent plus or minus 20.0
- Owner occupied31 plus or minus 19
- Renter occupied9 plus or minus 8
- Ownership rate77.5 percent plus or minus 24.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$246,400 plus or minus $86,956
- Single family units53 plus or minus 27
- Share single family100.0 percent plus or minus 26.4
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Galestown
How Galestown gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute42 plus or minus 25
- Commuting under 15 minutes0
- Share commuting under 15 minutes0.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more14 plus or minus 18
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.3 percent plus or minus 37.0
- Drove alone88.4 percent plus or minus 70.9
- Carpooled9.3 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dorchester County, not Galestown
Dorchester County context, not Galestown figures
These are Dorchester County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Galestown measurements.
- Establishments in Dorchester County687
- Employment at those establishments, Dorchester County9,537
- Covered employment, Dorchester County11,903
- Average annual pay, Dorchester County$52,568
- Average weekly wage, Dorchester County$1,011
- Housing units permitted, Dorchester County79
- Of those, single family, Dorchester County79
- County product, 2024, Dorchester County$1,800,578,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dorchester County8.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dorchester County$76,865
Every figure in this section is published for Dorchester County as a whole and is not a measurement of Galestown. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Galestown questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Galestown, Maryland?
114, in 40 households. Galestown town covers 0.23 square miles of land, which is 486 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Galestown in?
Dorchester County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Galestown figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dorchester County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Galestown.
Is zoning published for Galestown?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.