Work & commute · Rock Hall

Work & commute in Rock Hall, MD

Most working residents leave Rock Hall for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Chestertown (20%), Baltimore (5%) and Centreville (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

85 of 501 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 416 Rock Hall residents head out of town to work, 85 work right here, and 336 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rock Hall.

416live here, work elsewhere

85live and work here

336work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rock Hall goes to work

Chestertown10.4 mi away

20%99

Rock Hall (in town)right here

17%85

Baltimore22.7 mi away

5%26

Centreville11.7 mi away

3%13

Wilmington, DE55.9 mi away

1%6

Middletown, DE34.9 mi away

1%6

Washington, DC44.7 mi away

1%5

Columbia33.4 mi away

1%5

Rockville49.2 mi away

1%4

Kingstown11.5 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%248

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

How far

How far Rock Hall commutes

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

23%

45%

20%

11%

23%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rock Hall is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Rock Hall are

421 jobs are based in Rock Hall. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rock Hall’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rock Hall

421 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Rock Hall residents hold

501 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−6%

Jobs based in Rock Hall, 2013 → 2023: 450 → 421. 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.