Work & commute · Pleasant Hills

Work & commute in Pleasant Hills, MD

Most working residents leave Pleasant Hills for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (14%), Bel Air (6%) and Towson (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

88 of 1,747 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,659 Pleasant Hills residents head out of town to work, 88 work right here, and 2,757 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Hills.

1,659live here, work elsewhere

88live and work here

2,757work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Hills goes to work

Baltimore17.3 mi away

14%243

Bel Air4.2 mi away

6%109

Towson13.5 mi away

6%103

Pleasant Hills (in town)right here

5%88

Cockeysville12.6 mi away

4%67

Bel Air South4.8 mi away

4%64

Rossville10 mi away

2%34

Bel Air North4.8 mi away

2%30

Edgewood6.9 mi away

2%28

Middle River10.3 mi away

2%27

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%954

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

How far

How far Pleasant Hills commutes

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

33%

43%

16%

33%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Hills is a job hub

1.63jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Hills are

2,845 jobs are based in Pleasant Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pleasant Hills

2,845 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Pleasant Hills residents hold

1,747 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+64%

Jobs based in Pleasant Hills, 2013 → 2023: 1,739 → 2,845. 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.