Plumb Grove · Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Clear Spring commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
40 jobs are based in Clear Spring, against 175 working residents. Hardly any work in Clear Spring; the top destination outside it is Hagerstown (16%, 11 miles). 9% of workers have no commute at all (Maryland 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Clear Spring, and who commutes in
On a workday 174 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Clear Spring on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Where Clear Spring’s working residents head each day
Where Clear Spring clocks in
16% 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 Clear Spring: what the 40 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clear Spring, 2013 → 2023: 50 → 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Clear Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Clear Spring: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clear Spring workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 133 commuters (the 9% 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.
How many miles Clear Spring commutes
About 29% 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.
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 Clear Spring: questions
What is the median household income in Clear Spring?
$47,375 (±$23,068) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clear Spring?
8.5%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clear Spring?
24 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clear Spring work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hagerstown (16%, 11 mi), Frederick (5%, 32 mi), Robinwood (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clear Spring without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clear Spring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clear Spring
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.