Jugtown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Maryland has 19%. There are 18 jobs in Jugtown for 81 working residents. Only 1% work in Jugtown; the top destination outside it is Hagerstown (21%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Jugtown by day
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 34 people are in Jugtown on a workday afternoon, 65% 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 Jugtown goes to work
Where Jugtown clocks in
21% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 78% of the jobs in Jugtown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jugtown, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 18. 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 Jugtown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Jugtown
of Jugtown workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 55 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Jugtown commutes less than 11 miles
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.
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 Jugtown: questions
What is the poverty rate in Jugtown?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Jugtown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hagerstown (21%, 7 mi), Frederick (5%, 16 mi), Robinwood (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jugtown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jugtown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jugtown
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.