Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Highfield-Cascade has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Only 4% work in Highfield-Cascade itself; outside it, Hagerstown draws the most (11%, 13 miles). There are 133 jobs in Highfield-Cascade; 497 of its residents have a job. Highfield-Cascade grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Highfield-Cascade, in brief
Highfield-Cascade is a place people come home to
There are 133 jobs based in Highfield-Cascade, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Highfield-Cascade has about 730 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Highfield-Cascade workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 31 across Maryland. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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 497 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Highfield-Cascade’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Highfield-Cascade is better than 58% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Highfield-Cascade’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($62,368, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Highfield-Cascade’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Highfield-Cascade could be anywhere from C to A−.
How a workday changes Highfield-Cascade
On a workday 476 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Highfield-Cascade on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Time on the road from Highfield-Cascade: about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Highfield-Cascade workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 19% 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 people from Highfield-Cascade work
Where Highfield-Cascade clocks in
11% of workers
10% 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 Highfield-Cascade’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Highfield-Cascade, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 133. 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 Highfield-Cascade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Highfield-Cascade works
About 19% 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.
Getting around Highfield-Cascade: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Highfield-Cascade is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Highfield-Cascade near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 594 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). 4.0% of Highfield-Cascade households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Highfield-Cascade’s commuters take a bus or train.
Highfield-Cascade is 985th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 983 | Greenfield Township MN | 1,308 | $91K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 984 | Orange Blossom CA | 1,062 | $104K | 6.4% | 1.9% | <1% | B |
| 985 | Highfield-Cascade MD | 1,089 | $62K | 4.7% | 2.0% | 4% | B |
| 986 | Mi Ranchito Estate TX | 1,091 | — | 9.2% | 41.3% | 0% | B |
| 987 | Hayden AL | 1,333 | $80K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 3% | 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 Highfield-Cascade, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
Next door to Highfield-Cascade
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Highfield-Cascade workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highfield-Cascade | – | B | D | 36 min | $62,368 |
| Fort Ritchie | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Sabillasville | under 2% | — | — | 59 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Fort Ritchie and Sabillasville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Washington Township. Darker towns draw more of Highfield-Cascade’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Highfield-Cascade: questions
What is the median household income in Highfield-Cascade?
$62,368 (±$19,002) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Highfield-Cascade?
4.7%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Highfield-Cascade?
36 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Highfield-Cascade work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hagerstown (11%, 13 mi), Frederick (10%, 20 mi), Washington Township (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Highfield-Cascade walkable?
Highfield-Cascade is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Highfield-Cascade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Highfield-Cascade, from the people who make the trip.
More of Highfield-Cascade
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.