Ellerslie has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Ellerslie has 42 jobs, against 242 working residents. Hardly any work in Ellerslie; the top destination outside it is Cumberland (26%, 4 miles). Working from home is the commute for 2% 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 Ellerslie: the gist
Ellerslie is a place people come home to
There are 42 jobs based in Ellerslie, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ellerslie has about 310 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Ellerslie and Cumberland trade workers both ways
Cumberland is the top workplace for Ellerslie residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Ellerslie come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Ellerslie residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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; with 242 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Ellerslie by day and by night
On a workday 242 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 310 people are in Ellerslie on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 people from Ellerslie work
Where Ellerslie clocks in
26% 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.
The distance from Ellerslie to work
About 28% 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 Ellerslie’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ellerslie, 2013 → 2023: 41 → 42. 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 Ellerslie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Ellerslie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ellerslie workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 263 commuters (the 2% 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.
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 Ellerslie: questions
What is the median household income in Ellerslie?
$37,240 (±$21,685) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ellerslie?
16.3%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ellerslie?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ellerslie work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cumberland (26%, 4 mi), Frostburg (5%, 9 mi), La Vale (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ellerslie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ellerslie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ellerslie
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.