Work & commute · Carney

Work & commute in Carney, MD

Most working residents leave Carney for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (27%), Towson (10%) and Cockeysville (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

518 of 12,693 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,175 Carney residents head out of town to work, 518 work right here, and 6,155 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Carney.

12,175live here, work elsewhere

518live and work here

6,155work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Carney goes to work

Baltimore8.6 mi away

27%3,448

Towson5.1 mi away

10%1,223

Carney (in town)right here

4%518

Cockeysville7.6 mi away

4%476

Rossville4.1 mi away

3%362

Woodlawn13.8 mi away

2%244

Columbia22.8 mi away

2%230

Timonium5 mi away

2%223

Middle River6.8 mi away

2%223

White Marsh3.9 mi away

2%194

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%5,552

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

How far

How far Carney commutes

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

59%

26%

11%

59%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Carney is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Carney are

6,673 jobs are based in Carney. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carney’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Carney

6,673 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Carney residents hold

12,693 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−5%

Jobs based in Carney, 2013 → 2023: 6,990 → 6,673. 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.