Thornton · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ. M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Kennedyville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Maryland has 19%. There are 39 jobs in Kennedyville, and 106 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Kennedyville for work; outside it, Chestertown is the main destination (14%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kennedyville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 105 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 38 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Kennedyville 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Kennedyville work
Where Kennedyville clocks in
6% of workers
3% 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.
Kennedyville makes things: 49% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kennedyville, 2014 → 2024: 22 → 39. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kennedyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Kennedyville’s commute takes about 10 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kennedyville workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 170 commuters (the 4% 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 in the region Kennedyville works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
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 2024, 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 Kennedyville: questions
What is the median household income in Kennedyville?
$36,510 (±$3,626) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kennedyville?
9.8%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kennedyville?
10 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kennedyville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chestertown (14%, 7 mi), Middletown (6%, 18 mi), Galena (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Kennedyville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kennedyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kennedyville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.