Work & commute · Flower Hill

Work & commute in Flower Hill, MD

Most working residents leave Flower Hill for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Rockville (13%), Gaithersburg (10%) and Washington (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

71 of 6,041 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 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 5,970 Flower Hill residents head out of town to work, 71 work right here, and 409 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Flower Hill.

5,970live here, work elsewhere

71live and work here

409work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Flower Hill goes to work

Rockville6.1 mi away

13%768

Gaithersburg1.5 mi away

10%591

Washington, DC20.4 mi away

7%407

Bethesda13 mi away

5%332

North Bethesda9.7 mi away

4%267

Germantown4.3 mi away

4%229

Potomac10.7 mi away

3%163

Baltimore32 mi away

2%131

Columbia17.6 mi away

2%119

Frederick22.3 mi away

2%105

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%2,929

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

How far

How far Flower Hill commutes

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

48%

38%

10%

48%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Flower Hill is a commuter town

0.08jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Flower Hill are

480 jobs are based in Flower Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Flower Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Flower Hill

480 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Flower Hill residents hold

6,041 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−36%

Jobs based in Flower Hill, 2013 → 2023: 749 → 480. 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.