Delmar has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 505 jobs in Delmar for 1,545 working residents. The two grades for Delmar are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Maryland has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Delmar apart
Delmar has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Delmar went from 310 in 2013 to 505 in 2023, +63%. The jobs ↓
Delmar and Salisbury trade workers both ways
Salisbury is the top workplace for Delmar residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Delmar come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Delmar are quick
The average trip to work takes 25 minutes, against 31 across Maryland. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maryland worker. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Delmar’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Delmar is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #202 of 261 in Maryland. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Delmar’s grade. It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delmar could be anywhere from C to A.
What Delmar’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delmar, 2013 → 2023: 310 → 505. 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 Delmar’s own residents hold wherever they work.
32% of working residents work in Salisbury
Where Delmar clocks in
32% of workers
2% 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maryland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delmar workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,508 commuters (the 5% 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.
Delmar quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,530 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 490 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,900 people are in Delmar on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
The distance from Delmar to work
About 23% 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.
In Delmar, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delmar is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #234 of 261 in Maryland. Both inputs place Delmar 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 2,644 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). 2.6% of Delmar households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delmar’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Delmar is 1,755th of 3,840 U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Fulton MD | 5,677 | $222K | 0.7% | 1.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Riva MD | 4,976 | $176K | 1.1% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Brown Station MD | 3,451 | $169K | 3.3% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,753 | Yellow Springs OH | 3,730 | $86K | 8.4% | 6.0% | 21% | B |
| 1,754 | Clay Township IN | 4,348 | $82K | 5.6% | 7.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,755 | Delmar MD | 4,896 | $85K | 10.0% | 4.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,756 | Flat Rock NC | 3,643 | $95K | 7.6% | 5.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,757 | Patton Township IL | 5,104 | $67K | 7.7% | 1.9% | 23% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | 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 Delmar, 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 Delmar: questions
What is the median household income in Delmar?
$85,174 (±$6,411) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delmar?
10.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delmar?
25 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delmar work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salisbury (32%, 5 mi), Ocean City (2%, 26 mi), Baltimore (2%, 82 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delmar walkable?
Delmar is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delmar 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 Delmar, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delmar
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.