Photo: Ann Longmore-Etheridge from Western Maryland, United States · Public domainAlmost no one in Braddock Heights’s labor force is looking for work
Household incomes here are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Braddock Heights are A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 30% of workers, where Maryland as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Braddock Heights: the gist
Braddock Heights is a place people come home to
There are 148 jobs based in Braddock Heights, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Braddock Heights has about 1,500 people in it, 49% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Braddock Heights
30% of Braddock Heights workers work from home, against 19% across Maryland. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Braddock Heights’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Braddock Heights is better than 98% of U.S. towns, #16 of 261 in Maryland. Unemployment is its strongest input (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Braddock Heights could be anywhere from A to A+.
How a workday changes Braddock Heights
On a workday 1,540 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 126 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Braddock Heights on a workday afternoon, 49% fewer than live here.
0.09 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.
About 33 minutes each way for Braddock Heights’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Braddock Heights workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 954 commuters (the 30% 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.
20% of working residents work in Frederick
Where Braddock Heights clocks in
20% of workers
3% 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.
A place that makes things: 31% of Braddock Heights’ jobs are in goods
148 jobs are based in Braddock Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Braddock Heights, 2013 → 2023: 270 → 148. 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 Braddock Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Braddock Heights
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.
Most trips from Braddock Heights start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Braddock Heights is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns, #261 of 261 in Maryland. Both inputs place Braddock Heights near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,361 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.8% of Braddock Heights households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Braddock Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Braddock Heights is 83rd of 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 4 | Cabin John MD | 2,179 | $250K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Brown Station MD | 3,451 | $169K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Naval Academy MD | 3,006 | $122K | 1.5% | 4.4% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Holly Hills CO | 2,572 | $122K | 6.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 82 | Maunawili HI | 2,024 | $177K | 1.6% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| 83 | Braddock Heights MD | 2,892 | $124K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 84 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 85 | Mariemont OH | 3,499 | $152K | 3.9% | 1.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Braddock Heights, 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 Braddock Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Braddock Heights?
$124,000 (±$34,190) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Braddock Heights?
1.5%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Braddock Heights?
33 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Braddock Heights work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frederick (20%, 5 mi), Ballenger Creek (8%, 4 mi), Rockville (3%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Braddock Heights walkable?
Braddock Heights is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Braddock Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Braddock Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Braddock Heights
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.