Work & commute · Willards

Work & commute in Willards, MD

Most working residents leave Willards for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Salisbury (21%), Ocean City (8%) and Berlin (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 423 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 417 Willards residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 179 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Willards.

417live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

179work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Willards goes to work

Salisbury12.9 mi away

21%88

Ocean City15.1 mi away

8%35

Berlin8.4 mi away

5%20

West Ocean City13.3 mi away

3%11

Selbyville, DE9.1 mi away

2%7

Willards (in town)right here

1%6

Baltimore92.4 mi away

1%6

Seaford, DE23.3 mi away

1%5

Snow Hill15.4 mi away

1%5

Cambridge40.9 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%235

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

How far

How far Willards commutes

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

22%

49%

22%

22%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Willards is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Willards are

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

Jobs based in Willards

185 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Willards residents hold

423 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−21%

Jobs based in Willards, 2013 → 2023: 235 → 185. 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.