Work & commute · Cape St. Claire

Work & commute in Cape St. Claire, MD

Most working residents leave Cape St. Claire for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Parole (10%), Annapolis (9%) and Baltimore (9%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

201 of 3,824 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

25%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,623 Cape St. Claire residents head out of town to work, 201 work right here, and 1,069 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cape St. Claire.

3,623live here, work elsewhere

201live and work here

1,069work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cape St. Claire goes to work

Parole6.9 mi away

10%399

Annapolis5.9 mi away

9%351

Baltimore19.8 mi away

9%333

Cape St. Claire (in town)right here

5%201

Arnold3.2 mi away

4%147

Washington, DC32.2 mi away

4%140

Severna Park7.1 mi away

3%109

Columbia24.7 mi away

3%101

Glen Burnie11.6 mi away

3%97

Linthicum16.4 mi away

2%75

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%1,871

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

How far

How far Cape St. Claire commutes

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

38%

36%

21%

38%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cape St. Claire is a commuter town

0.33jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cape St. Claire are

1,270 jobs are based in Cape St. Claire. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cape St. Claire’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cape St. Claire

1,270 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Cape St. Claire residents hold

3,824 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+17%

Jobs based in Cape St. Claire, 2013 → 2023: 1,082 → 1,270. 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.