Work & commute · Havre de Grace

Work & commute in Havre de Grace, MD

Most working residents leave Havre de Grace for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (12%), Bel Air (6%) and Aberdeen (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

646 of 6,658 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 6,012 Havre de Grace residents head out of town to work, 646 work right here, and 3,670 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Havre de Grace.

6,012live here, work elsewhere

646live and work here

3,670work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Havre de Grace goes to work

Baltimore31.5 mi away

12%798

Havre de Grace (in town)right here

10%646

Bel Air12.4 mi away

6%372

Aberdeen3.9 mi away

4%289

Bel Air South10.8 mi away

3%191

Towson28.9 mi away

3%186

Riverside8.2 mi away

2%162

Edgewood13.1 mi away

2%143

Perryville3.2 mi away

2%126

Columbia46.4 mi away

2%105

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%3,640

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

How far

How far Havre de Grace commutes

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

29%

24%

33%

14%

29%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

33%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Havre de Grace is a commuter town

0.65jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Havre de Grace are

4,316 jobs are based in Havre de Grace. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Havre de Grace’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Havre de Grace

4,316 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Havre de Grace residents hold

6,658 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+27%

Jobs based in Havre de Grace, 2013 → 2023: 3,386 → 4,316. 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.