Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mountain Lake Park has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Mountain Lake Park is better than 19% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). There are 474 jobs in Mountain Lake Park; 838 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 7% of workers; Maryland has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mountain Lake Park stands out on work
How Mountain Lake Park earns its Jobs & income grade
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mountain Lake Park’s grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mountain Lake Park could be anywhere from D to B.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of Maryland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mountain Lake Park workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 922 commuters (the 7% 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 Mountain Lake Park, and who commutes in
On a workday 794 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 430 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Mountain Lake Park on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 2024, primary jobs.
24% of working residents work in Oakland
Where Mountain Lake Park clocks in
24% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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 Mountain Lake Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mountain Lake Park, 2014 → 2024: 414 → 474. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain Lake Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Mountain Lake Park goes to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Mountain Lake Park
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.4% of 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 993 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.9% of Mountain Lake Park households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Mountain Lake Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mountain Lake Park is 3,851st among 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 4 | Cabin John MD | 2,179 | $250K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,849 | Mercer WI | 1,649 | $63K | 9.5% | 0.6% | 27% | C− |
| 3,850 | Amboy IL | 2,206 | $68K | 13.3% | 8.3% | 14% | C− |
| 3,851 | Mountain Lake Park MD | 2,101 | $61K | 15.2% | 5.7% | 5% | C− |
| 3,852 | Hines OR | 1,610 | $78K | 14.9% | 0.4% | 15% | C− |
| 3,853 | Columbia Township MI | 2,542 | $63K | 18.8% | 4.5% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Mountain Lake Park, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
24% of Mountain Lake Park works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mountain Lake Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Lake Park | – | C− | A− | 18 min | $60,875 |
| Oakland | 24% | D | A | 16 min | $53,289 |
| Loch Lynn Heights | under 1% | — | — | 13 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Loch Lynn Heights: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Oakland. Darker towns draw more of Mountain Lake Park’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 2024, 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 Mountain Lake Park: questions
What is the median household income in Mountain Lake Park?
$60,875 (±$6,416) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mountain Lake Park?
15.2%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mountain Lake Park?
18 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mountain Lake Park work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oakland (24%, 2 mi), Cumberland (3%, 38 mi), Grantsville (2%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mountain Lake Park walkable?
Mountain Lake Park is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mountain Lake Park without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mountain Lake Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mountain Lake Park
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.