Work & commute · Brooklyn Park

Work & commute in Brooklyn Park, MD

Most working residents leave Brooklyn Park for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (18%), Glen Burnie (6%) and Columbia (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

168 of 6,692 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,524 Brooklyn Park residents head out of town to work, 168 work right here, and 1,888 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooklyn Park.

6,524live here, work elsewhere

168live and work here

1,888work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooklyn Park goes to work

Baltimore5.6 mi away

18%1,181

Glen Burnie4.4 mi away

6%404

Columbia12.8 mi away

4%262

Parole16.4 mi away

3%234

Linthicum2.4 mi away

3%219

Washington, DC30.4 mi away

3%185

Brooklyn Park (in town)right here

3%168

Severn7 mi away

2%124

Annapolis18.2 mi away

2%123

Ferndale2.3 mi away

1%100

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%3,692

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

How far

How far Brooklyn Park commutes

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

49%

33%

14%

49%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooklyn Park is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooklyn Park are

2,056 jobs are based in Brooklyn Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brooklyn Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brooklyn Park

2,056 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Brooklyn Park residents hold

6,692 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month62%

−25%

Jobs based in Brooklyn Park, 2013 → 2023: 2,734 → 2,056. 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.