Work & commute · Mays Chapel

Work & commute in Mays Chapel, MD

Most working residents leave Mays Chapel for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (27%), Towson (10%) and Cockeysville (8%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

172 of 6,868 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 6,696 Mays Chapel residents head out of town to work, 172 work right here, and 3,842 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mays Chapel.

6,696live here, work elsewhere

172live and work here

3,842work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mays Chapel goes to work

Baltimore10.2 mi away

27%1,827

Towson4 mi away

10%673

Cockeysville2.9 mi away

8%545

Timonium3 mi away

4%246

Columbia19.8 mi away

3%190

Mays Chapel (in town)right here

3%172

Owings Mills7.3 mi away

2%171

Pikesville4.1 mi away

2%129

Woodlawn10.6 mi away

2%122

Washington, DC41.8 mi away

1%85

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%2,708

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

How far

How far Mays Chapel commutes

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

50%

35%

11%

50%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mays Chapel is a commuter town

0.58jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mays Chapel are

4,014 jobs are based in Mays Chapel. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mays Chapel’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mays Chapel

4,014 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Mays Chapel residents hold

6,868 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+42%

Jobs based in Mays Chapel, 2013 → 2023: 2,817 → 4,014. 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.