Photo: G. Edward Johnson · CC BY 4.0Most of Burnt Mills commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Burnt Mills is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns. Employers in Burnt Mills report 696 jobs for 1,591 working residents. Jobs and income earn Burnt Mills B+; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Burnt Mills, in brief
Where Burnt Mills’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Burnt Mills is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #166 of 261 in Maryland. Job access by car holds Burnt Mills’ grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Burnt Mills could be anywhere from B− to A+.
How far Burnt Mills goes to work
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.
Who commutes out of Burnt Mills, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,581 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 686 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Burnt Mills on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2023, primary jobs.
23% of working residents work in Washington
Where Burnt Mills clocks in
23% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Burnt Mills: what the 696 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Burnt Mills, 2013 → 2023: 825 → 696. 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 Burnt Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes to work from Burnt Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Burnt Mills workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,359 commuters (the 21% 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.
Burnt Mills is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.2% of 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 1,721 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 35% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 47.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, among the most 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). 6.5% of Burnt Mills households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Burnt Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,430 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,100, Burnt Mills comes 1,283rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Riva MD | 4,976 | $176K | 1.1% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Brown Station MD | 3,451 | $169K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Naval Academy MD | 3,006 | $122K | 1.5% | 4.4% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,281 | Whitewater Township MI | 2,736 | $94K | 3.2% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,282 | Pine Level AL | 4,170 | $93K | 5.9% | 3.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,283 | Burnt Mills MD | 3,751 | $113K | 8.2% | 7.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,284 | Denmark WI | 2,875 | $76K | 11.6% | 1.1% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,285 | Floyd NY | 3,668 | $98K | 13.0% | 1.3% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,430 | 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 Burnt Mills, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
Work in the towns next to Burnt Mills
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Burnt Mills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnt Mills | – | B+ | A | 32 min | $113,463 |
| Kemp Mill | under 2% | B+ | A | 31 min | $146,354 |
| White Oak | under 2% | B− | A+ | 34 min | $83,370 |
| Four Corners | under 2% | A+ | A+ | 35 min | $203,125 |
| Hillandale | under 2% | A+ | A+ | 33 min | $164,871 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Burnt Mills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Burnt Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Burnt Mills?
$113,463 (±$7,721) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Burnt Mills?
8.2%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Burnt Mills?
32 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Burnt Mills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (23%, 9 mi), Rockville (5%, 9 mi), Bethesda (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Burnt Mills walkable?
Burnt Mills is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Burnt Mills without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 35% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Burnt Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Burnt Mills
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.