Work & commute · Owings Mills

Work & commute in Owings Mills, MD

Most working residents leave Owings Mills for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (24%), Towson (5%) and Columbia (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

998 of 14,607 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,609 Owings Mills residents head out of town to work, 998 work right here, and 18,690 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Owings Mills.

13,609live here, work elsewhere

998live and work here

18,690work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Owings Mills goes to work

Baltimore12.2 mi away

24%3,523

Owings Mills (in town)right here

7%998

Towson9.2 mi away

5%666

Columbia14.9 mi away

4%612

Woodlawn7.6 mi away

4%587

Cockeysville9.7 mi away

3%393

Milford Mill4.4 mi away

2%337

Pikesville5 mi away

2%315

Washington, DC37 mi away

2%259

Ellicott City9.6 mi away

1%205

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%6,712

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

How far

How far Owings Mills commutes

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

33%

48%

15%

33%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Owings Mills is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Owings Mills are

19,688 jobs are based in Owings Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Owings Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Owings Mills

19,688 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Owings Mills residents hold

14,607 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−6%

Jobs based in Owings Mills, 2013 → 2023: 20,845 → 19,688. 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.