Work & commute · White Oak

Work & commute in White Oak, MD

Most working residents leave White Oak for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Washington (22%), Rockville (5%) and Bethesda (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

71 of 6,472 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,401 White Oak residents head out of town to work, 71 work right here, and 2,136 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in White Oak.

6,401live here, work elsewhere

71live and work here

2,136work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where White Oak goes to work

Washington, DC9.8 mi away

22%1,438

Rockville9.5 mi away

5%317

Bethesda8.1 mi away

5%300

North Bethesda7.2 mi away

3%222

Silver Spring3.4 mi away

3%219

Baltimore26.8 mi away

3%215

Columbia12.8 mi away

2%156

Potomac11.3 mi away

2%154

Gaithersburg13.3 mi away

2%139

Calverton2.2 mi away

2%117

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%3,195

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

How far

How far White Oak commutes

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

55%

33%

55%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

White Oak is a commuter town

0.34jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in White Oak are

2,207 jobs are based in White Oak. Here is what they are, next to the jobs White Oak’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in White Oak

2,207 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs White Oak residents hold

6,472 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−24%

Jobs based in White Oak, 2013 → 2023: 2,918 → 2,207. 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.