Work & commute · Brock Hall

Work & commute in Brock Hall, MD

Most working residents leave Brock Hall for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (29%), Baltimore (3%) and Lake Arbor (3%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

90 of 5,486 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

42 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

33%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,396 Brock Hall residents head out of town to work, 90 work right here, and 7,302 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brock Hall.

5,396live here, work elsewhere

90live and work here

7,302work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brock Hall goes to work

Washington, DC15.1 mi away

29%1,579

Baltimore31.5 mi away

3%179

Lake Arbor6.1 mi away

3%143

Arlington, VA19.3 mi away

2%135

Bowie6.8 mi away

2%131

Bethesda22.2 mi away

2%106

East Riverdale11.6 mi away

2%98

Parole13.7 mi away

2%97

Columbia24.7 mi away

2%96

Silver Spring18.1 mi away

2%91

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%2,831

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

How far

How far Brock Hall commutes

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

18%

64%

15%

18%Under 10 mi

64%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brock Hall is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Brock Hall are

7,392 jobs are based in Brock Hall. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brock Hall’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brock Hall

7,392 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

Jobs Brock Hall residents hold

5,486 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month76%

+51%

Jobs based in Brock Hall, 2013 → 2023: 4,911 → 7,392. 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.