Work & commute · Riverside

Work & commute in Riverside, MD

Most working residents leave Riverside for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (12%), Bel Air (6%) and Aberdeen (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

172 of 3,236 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,064 Riverside residents head out of town to work, 172 work right here, and 3,785 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Riverside.

3,064live here, work elsewhere

172live and work here

3,785work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Riverside goes to work

Baltimore23.3 mi away

12%395

Bel Air6.7 mi away

6%205

Riverside (in town)right here

5%172

Aberdeen4.4 mi away

4%128

Edgewood5.1 mi away

4%123

Bel Air South4.1 mi away

4%122

Towson20.9 mi away

3%100

Bel Air North8.6 mi away

2%78

Cockeysville20.7 mi away

2%76

Havre de Grace8.2 mi away

2%62

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%1,775

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

How far

How far Riverside commutes

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

38%

33%

17%

12%

38%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Riverside is balanced between jobs and homes

1.22jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Riverside are

3,957 jobs are based in Riverside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Riverside

3,957 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Riverside residents hold

3,236 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−37%

Jobs based in Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 6,249 → 3,957. 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.