Hooper Island Light Station · Photo: Brigantine~enwiki · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Fishing Creek works elsewhere
Employers in Fishing Creek report 24 jobs, against 76 working residents. Only 3% stay in Fishing Creek for work; outside it, Cambridge is the main destination (22%, 17 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 19% for Maryland as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Fishing Creek
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Fishing Creek on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
The places Fishing Creek commutes to
Where Fishing Creek clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
What Fishing Creek’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fishing Creek, 2014 → 2024: 18 → 24. 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 Fishing Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 6 minutes to work from Fishing Creek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fishing Creek workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 64 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region Fishing Creek works
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 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 Fishing Creek: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fishing Creek?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fishing Creek?
6 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fishing Creek work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cambridge (22%, 17 mi), Salisbury (9%, 34 mi), Easton (7%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Fishing Creek 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 Fishing Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fishing Creek
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.