Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Mount Savage commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% stay in Mount Savage for work; outside it, Cumberland is the main destination (22%, 7 miles). 65 jobs are based in Mount Savage, and 290 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 19% across Maryland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mount Savage apart on work
Mount Savage and Cumberland trade workers both ways
Cumberland is the top workplace for Mount Savage residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Mount Savage come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Mount Savage is a place people come home to
There are 65 jobs based in Mount Savage, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Savage has about 290 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Mount Savage workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 19% across Maryland. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 290 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Mount Savage’s working residents head each day
Where Mount Savage clocks in
22% of workers
8% 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.
Who commutes out of Mount Savage, and who commutes in
On a workday 285 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 60 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Mount Savage on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Commuting from Mount Savage: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Savage workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 288 commuters (the 0% 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.
Goods, not services: 32% of the jobs in Mount Savage
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Savage, 2013 → 2023: 113 → 65. 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 Savage’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mount Savage
About 25% 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 Savage: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Savage?
$51,691 (±$26,335) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Savage?
16.1%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Savage?
27 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Savage work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cumberland (22%, 7 mi), Frostburg (8%, 4 mi), La Vale (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Savage without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Savage, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Savage
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.