The 100 'Drunkest' Towns In Maryland: Does Your Community Rank?

Montgomery County communities were left off a statewide ranking top 10 list for once, which might be something to brag about.

The Roadsnacks website, a data compiler that specializes in creating lists that rate communities on how ”snobby” or “redneck” they are, went there, compiling a list that rates the “drunkest” towns in several states - including Maryland.

Surprisingly, summer vacation spot Ocean City doesn’t make the list.

Annapolis is ranked No. 1 as the drunkest city, the No. 2 spot goes to Hagerstown, No. 3 is Bel Air, and College Park, the home to the University of Maryland, is No. 4 in the rankings.

But more than a dozen Montgomery communities are listed in the top 100 Maryland drinking towns. (See full list below.)

Roadsnacks.net has compiled a list of the ”drunkest” towns based on the number of available places to buy booze, and by how often people are talking about drinking. The list also includes each town’s divorce rate.

Of Maryland’s rankings, the author wrote:

“Bravo, Maryland. Especially when you consider that right next door to the 2nd and 3rd drunkest places in the nation (Delaware and D.C.)

But, while hundreds of thousands of people don’t drink a drop, the cities below more than make up for it.

How do you decide how much a place drinks? By the number of available places to buy booze, and by how often people are talking about drinking, that’s how.

Plus, we thought why not add in a stereotype? Studies have indicated that when one or both partners in a marriage are alcoholics, that couple is three times more likely to divorce.”

What do you make of the rankings? Tell us in comments below.

The authors note that Maryland is toward the back of the pack for alcohol consumption per capita. Residents average 21 beers each a year. The divorce rate is also in the bottom of national rankings.

Montgomery County communities in the rankings include:

22. Gaithersburg

23. Rockville

27. Silver Spring

31. Bethesda

38. Beltsville

37. Suitland

38. Beltsville

51. Takoma Park

60. White Oak

70. Germantown

73. North Bethesda

76. Montgomery Village

77. Clarksburg

81. Potomac

84. Olney

96. Wheaton

100. Damascus