Sotterley · Photo: Pubdog at en.wikipedia · Public domainBroomes Island has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Broomes Island has 40 jobs, and 165 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Broomes Island; the top destination outside it is Prince Frederick (13%, 9 miles). For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Maryland as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Broomes Island on a workday
On a workday 165 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Broomes Island on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Broomes Island work
Where Broomes Island clocks in
13% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 88% of the jobs in Broomes Island
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broomes Island, 2014 → 2024: 17 → 40. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Broomes Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Broomes Island: about 56 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 18 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broomes Island workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 211 commuters (the 6% 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 Broomes Island
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Broomes Island: questions
What is the poverty rate in Broomes Island?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broomes Island?
56 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broomes Island work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Prince Frederick (13%, 9 mi), Washington (4%, 42 mi), California (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Broomes Island without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Broomes Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broomes Island
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.