Work & commute · Burnt Mills

Work & commute in Burnt Mills, MD

Most working residents leave Burnt Mills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (23%), Rockville (5%) and Bethesda (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 1,591 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,581 Burnt Mills residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 686 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Burnt Mills.

1,581live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

686work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Burnt Mills goes to work

Washington, DC9 mi away

23%365

Rockville9.1 mi away

5%78

Bethesda7.2 mi away

5%76

Silver Spring2.5 mi away

4%64

Potomac10.6 mi away

3%48

North Bethesda6.5 mi away

3%46

Columbia13.8 mi away

3%42

Baltimore27.7 mi away

3%40

Gaithersburg13.2 mi away

2%35

Arlington, VA12.1 mi away

2%31

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%766

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

How far

How far Burnt Mills commutes

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

63%

27%

63%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Burnt Mills is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Burnt Mills are

696 jobs are based in Burnt Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Burnt Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Burnt Mills

696 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Burnt Mills residents hold

1,591 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−16%

Jobs based in Burnt Mills, 2013 → 2023: 825 → 696. 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.