St. Thomas Church · Photo: Jameslwoodward · CC BY-SA 3.0Owings Mills has higher household incomes than 74% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 5.6% (Maryland 9.4%). Owings Mills grades A− for jobs and income and A for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 6.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 26.3 in Baltimore.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Owings Mills, in brief
Owings Mills and Baltimore trade workers both ways
Baltimore is the top workplace for Owings Mills residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Owings Mills come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Owings Mills draws workers from far and wide
The 20,962 jobs in Owings Mills are filled from a wide area. Owings Mills’ own residents hold 5% and the ten next-biggest home towns 30%; the other 65% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Owings Mills pay over $40,000 a year
72% of the jobs based in Owings Mills pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Owings Mills’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Owings Mills is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #118 of 261 in Maryland. Job access by car holds Owings Mills’ grade up (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Owings Mills could be anywhere from B to A.
24% of working residents work in Baltimore
Where Owings Mills clocks in
24% 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.
72% of the jobs in Owings Mills pay over $3,333 a month
20,962 jobs are based in Owings Mills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Owings Mills, 2014 → 2024: 20,841 → 20,962. 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 Owings Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Owings Mills
On a workday 13,634 residents head out to work, 1,017 work right here, and 19,945 people come in from elsewhere.
About 44,000 people are in Owings Mills on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 29 minutes to work from Owings Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Owings Mills workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16,722 commuters (the 20% 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.
How many miles Owings Mills commutes
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.
In Owings Mills, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Owings Mills is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #74 of 261 in Maryland. Both inputs place Owings Mills near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 20,824 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 44% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.7% of Owings Mills households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Owings Mills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Owings Mills places 393rd of 1,162 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 26,000 to 50,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A+ |
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| 14 | Severna Park MD | 40,228 | $170K | 2.8% | 2.7% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Pasadena MD | 34,309 | $130K | 5.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Potomac MD | 45,902 | $237K | 3.9% | 3.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 391 | Fitchburg WI | 34,615 | $87K | 9.3% | 1.9% | 8% | A− |
| 392 | Norwood Park Township IL | 26,584 | $90K | 4.8% | 5.4% | 7% | A− |
| 393 | Owings Mills MD | 37,245 | $96K | 5.6% | 4.7% | 7% | A− |
| 394 | Oviedo FL | 41,317 | $117K | 5.3% | 5.3% | 5% | A− |
| 395 | Marysville OH | 30,190 | $93K | 6.7% | 3.1% | 17% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,162 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 25% | 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 Owings Mills, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
How Owings Mills compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Owings Mills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owings Mills | – | A− | A | 29 min | $96,243 |
| Randallstown | under 2% | B | A | 32 min | $85,735 |
| Garrison | under 2% | B+ | A+ | 28 min | $102,423 |
| Reisterstown | under 2% | B− | A | 30 min | $85,543 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Owings Mills’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 Owings Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Owings Mills?
$96,243 (±$8,024) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Owings Mills?
5.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Owings Mills?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Owings Mills work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baltimore (24%, 12 mi), Towson (5%, 9 mi), Columbia (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Owings Mills walkable?
Owings Mills is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.8 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Owings Mills without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Owings Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Owings Mills
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.