Work & commute · Bel Air North

Work & commute in Bel Air North, MD

Most working residents leave Bel Air North for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (12%), Bel Air (11%) and Towson (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

717 of 14,652 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,935 Bel Air North residents head out of town to work, 717 work right here, and 4,534 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bel Air North.

13,935live here, work elsewhere

717live and work here

4,534work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bel Air North goes to work

Baltimore21.6 mi away

12%1,781

Bel Air1.9 mi away

11%1,630

Towson17.1 mi away

5%732

Bel Air North (in town)right here

5%717

Bel Air South4.6 mi away

4%597

Cockeysville14.6 mi away

4%518

Edgewood10.1 mi away

2%278

Aberdeen10.9 mi away

2%239

Rossville14.7 mi away

2%233

Columbia35.6 mi away

1%214

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%7,713

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Bel Air North commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

34%

42%

15%

10%

34%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bel Air North is a commuter town

0.36jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.36 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Bel Air North are

5,251 jobs are based in Bel Air North. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bel Air North’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bel Air North

5,251 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Bel Air North residents hold

14,652 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+3%

Jobs based in Bel Air North, 2013 → 2023: 5,095 → 5,251. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.