Work & commute · St. Michaels

Work & commute in St. Michaels, MD

Most working residents leave St. Michaels for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Easton (18%), Baltimore (5%) and Cambridge (4%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

40 of 374 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 334 St. Michaels residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 767 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Michaels.

334live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

767work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Michaels goes to work

Easton8.2 mi away

18%68

St. Michaels (in town)right here

11%40

Baltimore40.9 mi away

5%17

Cambridge18.2 mi away

4%14

Washington, DC43.5 mi away

3%11

Annapolis19.7 mi away

2%8

Salisbury44.7 mi away

2%7

Glen Burnie32.6 mi away

1%5

Denton22.2 mi away

1%4

Towson46.8 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%196

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

How far

How far St. Michaels commutes

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

40%

13%

36%

11%

40%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

36%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Michaels is a job hub

2.16jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Michaels are

807 jobs are based in St. Michaels. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Michaels’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Michaels

807 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs St. Michaels residents hold

374 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−6%

Jobs based in St. Michaels, 2013 → 2023: 858 → 807. 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.