Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Joppatowne has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Measured by household income, Joppatowne is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns. Joppatowne has 1,600 jobs for 5,479 working residents. The two grades for Joppatowne are A for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Joppatowne
The four measures behind Joppatowne’s grade
Household income is its strongest input ($117,881, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Joppatowne could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Joppatowne
On a workday 5,344 residents head out to work, 135 work right here, and 1,465 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Joppatowne on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
13% of working residents work in Baltimore
Where Joppatowne clocks in
13% 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.
What Joppatowne’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Joppatowne, 2013 → 2023: 1,722 → 1,600. 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 Joppatowne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Joppatowne, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Joppatowne workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,898 commuters (the 12% 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 many miles Joppatowne commutes
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.
Few in Joppatowne walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Joppatowne is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #191 of 261 in Maryland. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% 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 7,874 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 57% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 16% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 66% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Joppatowne households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Joppatowne’s commuters take a bus or train.
Joppatowne is 489th of 2,227 U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
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| 10 | Scaggsville MD | 10,564 | $207K | 2.9% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Annapolis Neck MD | 12,032 | $174K | 3.3% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Colesville MD | 14,519 | $131K | 3.4% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 487 | Jefferson GA | 17,185 | $110K | 5.6% | 2.6% | 15% | A |
| 488 | El Sobrante CA | 13,129 | $166K | 2.9% | 5.8% | 2% | A |
| 489 | Joppatowne MD | 14,237 | $118K | 6.5% | 3.3% | 2% | A |
| 490 | Little Chute WI | 11,800 | $88K | 5.7% | 2.4% | 9% | A |
| 491 | Woolwich Township NJ | 14,858 | $158K | 7.5% | 3.8% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Joppatowne, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
The towns around Joppatowne
The biggest share goes to Edgewood (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Joppatowne workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joppatowne | – | A | B | 34 min | $117,881 |
| Edgewood | 4% | B− | A− | 31 min | $80,772 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Joppatowne’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 Joppatowne: questions
What is the median household income in Joppatowne?
$117,881 (±$9,807) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Joppatowne?
6.5%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Joppatowne?
34 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Joppatowne work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baltimore (13%, 16 mi), Bel Air (4%, 8 mi), Edgewood (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Joppatowne walkable?
Joppatowne is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Joppatowne without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 16% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Joppatowne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Joppatowne
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.