Garretts Mill has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes (Maryland 31, U.S. 26). Garretts Mill has 21 jobs, against 96 working residents. Hardly any work in Garretts Mill itself; outside it, Frederick draws the most (18%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Garretts Mill
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Garretts Mill on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 the trip to work from Garretts Mill ends
Where Garretts Mill clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
Garretts Mill makes things: 90% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Garretts Mill, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 21. 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 Garretts Mill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maryland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Garretts Mill workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 129 commuters (the 16% 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.
The distance from Garretts Mill 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.
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 Garretts Mill: questions
What is the poverty rate in Garretts Mill?
11.1%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Garretts Mill?
26 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Garretts Mill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frederick (18%, 16 mi), Hagerstown (7%, 20 mi), Baltimore (5%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Garretts Mill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Garretts Mill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Garretts Mill
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.