Photo: Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) · CC BY-SA 2.5Grantsville draws 1,176 commuters a day, with 3.5 jobs for every working resident
2% of workers have no commute at all; Maryland has 19%. 1,236 jobs are based in Grantsville; 358 of its residents have a job. About one in seven work in Grantsville; the top destination outside it is Oakland (5%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Grantsville stands out on work
Grantsville has far more jobs than workers
Grantsville has 1,236 jobs, 3.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,800 people are in town, 92% more than the 950 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Grantsville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Grantsville went from 499 in 2013 to 1,236 in 2023, +148%. The jobs ↓
Many of the people who work in Grantsville live in another state
Elk Lick Township, PA (7%), Meyersdale, PA (3%) and Salisbury, PA (3%) are among the top places Grantsville’s workers come from. Counting only the top ten home towns, 16% of the jobs here are held by people from out of state. The commute map ↓
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 358 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The daily flow of workers through Grantsville
On a workday 298 residents head out to work and 60 work right here.
About 1,800 people are in Grantsville on a workday afternoon, 92% more 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.
32% of the jobs in Grantsville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grantsville, 2013 → 2023: 499 → 1,236. 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 Grantsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Grantsville, and from where
Where Grantsville clocks in
5% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
How long Grantsville spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grantsville workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 374 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.
How far Grantsville’s workers travel
About 24% 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 Grantsville: questions
What is the median household income in Grantsville?
$38,512 (±$12,474) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grantsville?
25.9%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grantsville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grantsville work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oakland (5%, 24 mi), Cumberland (5%, 21 mi), Baltimore (4%, 138 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grantsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grantsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grantsville
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.