Photo: Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Leonardtown earn more than those in 95% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Leonardtown itself; outside it, California draws the most (11%, 8 miles). Below the poverty line: 1.6% of residents, against 9.4% across Maryland. Leonardtown grades A for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Leonardtown: the figures worth knowing
Leonardtown has far more jobs than workers
Leonardtown has 5,699 jobs, 3.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 9,100 people are in town, 80% more than the 5,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Leonardtown draws workers from far and wide
The 5,699 jobs in Leonardtown are filled from a wide area. Leonardtown’s own residents hold 5% and the ten next-biggest home towns 25%; the other 70% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Nearly all the work in Leonardtown is services
91% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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.
How Leonardtown earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Leonardtown is better than 91% of U.S. towns, #73 of 261 in Maryland. The poverty rate holds Leonardtown’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Leonardtown could be anywhere from A− to A+.
A workday in Leonardtown: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,416 residents head out to work, 265 work right here, and 5,434 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,100 people are in Leonardtown on a workday afternoon, 80% more than live here.
3.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Leonardtown: where workers come from
Where Leonardtown clocks in
11% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Leonardtown
5,699 jobs are based in Leonardtown.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leonardtown, 2013 → 2023: 5,212 → 5,699. 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 Leonardtown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Leonardtown, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leonardtown workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,804 commuters (the 16% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Leonardtown
About 23% 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.
The commute in Leonardtown is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Leonardtown is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #238 of 261 in Maryland. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,145 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). 7.3% of Leonardtown households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leonardtown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Leonardtown is 382nd of 3,758 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Fulton MD | 5,677 | $222K | 0.7% | 1.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Riva MD | 4,976 | $176K | 1.1% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Hampton MD | 5,372 | $171K | 3.8% | 0.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 380 | Castle Hills TX | 3,948 | $95K | 6.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| 381 | Olive Township MI | 5,291 | $80K | 2.6% | 0.7% | 6% | A |
| 382 | Leonardtown MD | 5,033 | $154K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 16% | A |
| 383 | Hickman NE | 3,663 | $104K | 2.6% | 1.7% | 3% | A |
| 384 | North Hudson WI | 3,803 | $123K | 4.2% | 3.7% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Leonardtown, 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 Leonardtown: questions
What is the median household income in Leonardtown?
$153,819 (±$23,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leonardtown?
1.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leonardtown?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leonardtown work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are California (11%, 8 mi), Washington (5%, 46 mi), Wildewood (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Leonardtown walkable?
Leonardtown is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leonardtown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leonardtown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leonardtown
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.