Most of Mount Aetna commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Commuters spend 18 minutes getting to work on average; the Maryland average is 31, the U.S. 26. Mount Aetna has 83 jobs for 255 working residents. Hardly any work in Mount Aetna; the top destination outside it is Hagerstown (9%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mount Aetna stands out on work
About 18 minutes each way for Mount Aetna’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Aetna workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 commuters (the 25% 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.
Mount Aetna on a workday afternoon
On a workday 253 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Mount Aetna on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Mount Aetna’s working residents head each day
Where Mount Aetna clocks in
9% 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.
59% of the jobs in Mount Aetna make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Aetna, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 83. 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 Mount Aetna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Mount Aetna works
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.
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 Mount Aetna: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Aetna?
$145,662 (±$84,035) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Aetna?
3.8%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Aetna?
18 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Aetna work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hagerstown (9%, 6 mi), Frederick (8%, 15 mi), Ballenger Creek (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Aetna 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 Mount Aetna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Aetna
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.