Midlothian has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Midlothian itself; outside it, Cumberland draws the most (25%, 10 miles). There are 16 jobs in Midlothian, against 134 working residents. At home: 5% of workers have no commute at all (Maryland 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Midlothian
On a workday 133 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Midlothian on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 people from Midlothian work
Where Midlothian clocks in
25% of workers
7% 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.
What Midlothian’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Midlothian, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 16. 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 Midlothian’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Midlothian’s commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Midlothian workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 165 commuters (the 5% 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.
Midlothian’s commute, mile by mile
About 28% 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.
Midlothian and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Midlothian workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midlothian | – | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Shaft | under 2% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Carlos | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Shaft and Carlos: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Midlothian’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Midlothian: questions
What is the poverty rate in Midlothian?
0.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Midlothian?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Midlothian work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cumberland (25%, 10 mi), Frostburg (7%, 2 mi), Hagerstown (5%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Midlothian 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 Midlothian, from the people who make the trip.
More of Midlothian
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.