Work & commute · College Park

Work & commute in College Park, MD

Most working residents leave College Park for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (18%), Baltimore (3%) and Beltsville (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

675 of 7,963 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,288 College Park residents head out of town to work, 675 work right here, and 20,594 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in College Park.

7,288live here, work elsewhere

675live and work here

20,594work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where College Park goes to work

Washington, DC7.7 mi away

18%1,445

College Park (in town)right here

8%675

Baltimore27.3 mi away

3%267

Beltsville3.1 mi away

3%224

Rockville13.2 mi away

2%199

Bethesda9.8 mi away

2%191

Columbia14.7 mi away

2%147

Arlington, VA12 mi away

2%134

North Bethesda10.2 mi away

2%126

Silver Spring4.5 mi away

2%120

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%4,435

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

How far

How far College Park commutes

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

52%

29%

12%

52%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

College Park is a job hub

2.67jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in College Park are

21,269 jobs are based in College Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs College Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in College Park

21,269 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs College Park residents hold

7,963 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−17%

Jobs based in College Park, 2013 → 2023: 25,661 → 21,269. 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.