Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Mapleville commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Mapleville report 18 jobs, against 96 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mapleville for work; outside it, Ballenger Creek is the main destination (13%, 16 miles). 16% of workers have no commute at all, next to 19% for Maryland as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Mapleville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Mapleville on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
The towns that employ Mapleville’s residents
Where Mapleville clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Mapleville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mapleville, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 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 Mapleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mapleville
of Mapleville workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 187 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.
The commute from Mapleville, by distance
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 Mapleville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mapleville?
16.7%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mapleville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ballenger Creek (13%, 16 mi), Hagerstown (11%, 8 mi), Frederick (8%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mapleville 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 Mapleville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mapleville
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.