Work & commute · Riviera Beach

Work & commute in Riviera Beach, MD

Most working residents leave Riviera Beach for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Baltimore (14%), Glen Burnie (7%) and Parole (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

98 of 5,749 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,651 Riviera Beach residents head out of town to work, 98 work right here, and 723 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Riviera Beach.

5,651live here, work elsewhere

98live and work here

723work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Riviera Beach goes to work

Baltimore10.4 mi away

14%826

Glen Burnie4.3 mi away

7%397

Parole12.3 mi away

5%267

Columbia17.9 mi away

4%257

Linthicum8 mi away

4%223

Pasadena2 mi away

4%202

Severna Park5.7 mi away

3%165

Severn9.2 mi away

2%125

Washington, DC31.8 mi away

2%118

Riviera Beach (in town)right here

2%98

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%3,071

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

How far

How far Riviera Beach commutes

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

36%

47%

13%

36%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Riviera Beach is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Riviera Beach are

821 jobs are based in Riviera Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riviera Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Riviera Beach

821 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Riviera Beach residents hold

5,749 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month71%

−29%

Jobs based in Riviera Beach, 2013 → 2023: 1,150 → 821. 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.