Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Libertytown works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns. Libertytown has 248 jobs; 447 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Libertytown are A+ 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 Libertytown, in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Libertytown
On income, poverty and job access, Libertytown is better than 96% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Libertytown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Libertytown could be anywhere from A to A+.
Time on the road from Libertytown: about 39 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Libertytown workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 574 commuters (the 15% 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.
Who commutes out of Libertytown, and who commutes in
On a workday 444 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 245 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Libertytown on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
16% of working residents work in Frederick
Where Libertytown clocks in
16% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Libertytown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Libertytown, 2013 → 2023: 130 → 248. 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 Libertytown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Libertytown
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.
Most trips from Libertytown start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Libertytown is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. 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 675 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.9% of Libertytown households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Libertytown’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Libertytown ranks: 135th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | New Market MD | 1,609 | $203K | 0.8% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 133 | Kaukauna WI | 1,295 | $122K | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 134 | Big Rock IL | 1,090 | $163K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 2% | A+ |
| 135 | Libertytown MD | 1,346 | $114K | 1.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 136 | Oakland MO | 1,372 | $115K | 6.4% | 5.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 137 | Thornville OH | 1,111 | $102K | 1.7% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Libertytown, 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 Libertytown: questions
What is the median household income in Libertytown?
$113,865 (±$18,414) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Libertytown?
1.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Libertytown?
39 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Libertytown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frederick (16%, 9 mi), Rockville (5%, 28 mi), Mount Airy (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Libertytown walkable?
Libertytown is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Libertytown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Libertytown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Libertytown
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.