Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Boonsboro (2.6%) is lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 74% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Boonsboro is better than 88% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−). Only 3% work in Boonsboro itself; outside it, Frederick draws the most (12%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Boonsboro earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boonsboro could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
How a workday changes Boonsboro
On a workday 1,516 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 885 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Boonsboro on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Boonsboro’s residents
Where Boonsboro clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Boonsboro
937 jobs are based in Boonsboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boonsboro, 2013 → 2023: 886 → 937. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boonsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Boonsboro spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boonsboro workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,482 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Maryland: 80% drive alone, 5% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Boonsboro
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Boonsboro gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.0% across Maryland.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,723 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.7% of Boonsboro households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boonsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
497th of 4,264: where Boonsboro ranks among U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Riva MD | 4,976 | $176K | 1.1% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Brown Station MD | 3,451 | $169K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Naval Academy MD | 3,006 | $122K | 1.5% | 4.4% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 495 | Chisago Lake Township MN | 4,958 | $133K | 3.9% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| 496 | Oley Township PA | 3,874 | $91K | 6.7% | 1.1% | 8% | A |
| 497 | Boonsboro MD | 3,867 | $96K | 3.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A |
| 498 | Fond du Lac WI | 3,780 | $106K | 4.7% | 2.6% | 1% | A |
| 499 | Shelby WI | 4,668 | $110K | 6.4% | 1.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Boonsboro, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Boonsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Boonsboro?
$95,956 (±$52,982) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boonsboro?
3.3%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boonsboro?
30 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boonsboro work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frederick (12%, 14 mi), Hagerstown (9%, 10 mi), Ballenger Creek (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boonsboro walkable?
Boonsboro is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boonsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boonsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boonsboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.