Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domainWith 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Hebron works elsewhere
Hebron has 106 jobs; 489 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Hebron are B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 9% of workers; Maryland has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hebron at work: what stands out
Hebron is a place people come home to
There are 106 jobs based in Hebron, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hebron has about 740 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Hebron works in Salisbury
171 working residents, 35%, have their main job in Salisbury, 6.4 miles away. That’s 35 times as many as work in Hebron itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Hebron are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 31 across Maryland. That’s about 54 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; with 489 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Hebron’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hebron is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hebron’s grade up ($97,841, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.8%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Hebron’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hebron could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Hebron
On a workday 483 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 100 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Hebron on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
35% of working residents work in Salisbury
Where Hebron clocks in
35% 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 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maryland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hebron workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 749 commuters (the 9% 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.
Hebron is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hebron, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 106. 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 Hebron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Hebron commutes
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Hebron start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hebron is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.0% across Maryland.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 823 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). 1.9% of Hebron households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hebron’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Hebron is 1,415th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Galesville MD | 1,062 | $205K | 2.7% | 6.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Queen Anne MD | 1,443 | $103K | 4.0% | 19.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,413 | Loran Township IL | 1,313 | $73K | 5.1% | 0.8% | 8% | B− |
| 1,414 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| 1,415 | Hebron MD | 1,119 | $98K | 23.8% | 3.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,416 | Marion Township IN | 1,108 | $83K | 10.4% | 6.8% | <1% | B− |
| 1,417 | Lincoln VT | 1,400 | $97K | 7.5% | 4.8% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Hebron, 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 Hebron: questions
What is the median household income in Hebron?
$97,841 (±$28,982) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hebron?
23.8%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hebron?
24 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hebron work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salisbury (35%, 6 mi), Seaford (2%, 17 mi), Cambridge (2%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hebron walkable?
Hebron is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hebron 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 Hebron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hebron
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.