Work & commute · Brown Station

Work & commute in Brown Station, MD

Most working residents leave Brown Station for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (29%), Arlington (3%) and Lake Arbor (3%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 1,493 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,487 Brown Station residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 390 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brown Station.

1,487live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

390work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brown Station goes to work

Washington, DC13 mi away

29%434

Arlington, VA17.1 mi away

3%51

Lake Arbor4.8 mi away

3%50

Baltimore32.5 mi away

3%49

Columbia24.5 mi away

2%35

Bethesda20.3 mi away

2%27

College Park13 mi away

2%23

East Riverdale10.1 mi away

2%23

Silver Spring16.4 mi away

1%21

Parole15.7 mi away

1%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%759

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

How far

How far Brown Station commutes

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

21%

63%

13%

21%Under 10 mi

63%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brown Station 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 Brown Station are

396 jobs are based in Brown Station. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brown Station’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brown Station

396 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)95%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Brown Station residents hold

1,493 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

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Jobs based in Brown Station, 2013 → 2023: 397 → 396. 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.