Work & commute · Bowleys Quarters

Work & commute in Bowleys Quarters, MD

Most working residents leave Bowleys Quarters for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (23%), Middle River (5%) and Towson (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

68 of 3,633 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,565 Bowleys Quarters residents head out of town to work, 68 work right here, and 920 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bowleys Quarters.

3,565live here, work elsewhere

68live and work here

920work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bowleys Quarters goes to work

Baltimore12.2 mi away

23%839

Middle River3.1 mi away

5%190

Towson13.8 mi away

5%183

Rossville5.9 mi away

3%113

Cockeysville17.4 mi away

3%106

Dundalk6.9 mi away

2%90

Essex3.3 mi away

2%74

Bowleys Quarters (in town)right here

2%68

Columbia26.6 mi away

2%67

Edgemere7.3 mi away

2%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%1,838

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

How far

How far Bowleys Quarters commutes

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

30%

51%

14%

30%Under 10 mi

51%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bowleys Quarters is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bowleys Quarters are

988 jobs are based in Bowleys Quarters. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bowleys Quarters’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bowleys Quarters

988 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Bowleys Quarters residents hold

3,633 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+2%

Jobs based in Bowleys Quarters, 2013 → 2023: 971 → 988. 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.