Photo: Jason Knauer · CC BY 3.0Parkville has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Parkville is better than 66% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (A−). There are 4,976 jobs in Parkville, against 14,574 working residents. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 6.8 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
Work in Parkville: the figures worth knowing
A lot of Parkville works one town over
42% of working residents work in a town that borders Parkville: Baltimore (30%), Towson (10%) and Carney (2%). Next door ↓
Most Parkville residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 4% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Parkville empties out on a workday
About 21,000 people are in Parkville on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than the 31,000 who live here: 14,000 head out to work and 4,700 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Where Parkville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Parkville’s grade up (ahead of 92% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.0%, 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, Parkville could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Miles to work from Parkville
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.
Who commutes out of Parkville, and who commutes in
On a workday 14,260 residents head out to work, 314 work right here, and 4,662 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21,000 people are in Parkville 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 2024, primary jobs.
30% of working residents work in Baltimore
Where Parkville clocks in
30% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Parkville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Parkville, 2014 → 2024: 5,055 → 4,976. 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 Parkville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Parkville: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Parkville workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13,950 commuters (the 13% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Parkville
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.5% 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 16,105 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 89% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 15% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 89% 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). 6.3% of Parkville households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Parkville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Parkville is 724th of 1,415 U.S. towns of 21,000 to 41,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Severna Park MD | 40,228 | $170K | 2.8% | 2.7% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | North Laurel MD | 25,563 | $123K | 4.7% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Arnold MD | 24,303 | $142K | 3.1% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 722 | Hanover Park IL | 36,568 | $92K | 12.5% | 5.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 723 | Leland NC | 35,731 | $92K | 6.1% | 4.7% | 8% | B+ |
| 724 | Parkville MD | 30,549 | $79K | 8.6% | 5.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 725 | Clinton MS | 26,640 | $75K | 9.6% | 3.2% | 14% | B+ |
| 726 | State College PA | 40,844 | $45K | 38.1% | 5.0% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,415 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 16% | 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 Parkville, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
42% of Parkville works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Baltimore (30%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Parkville’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 Parkville: questions
What is the median household income in Parkville?
$79,178 (±$5,226) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Parkville?
8.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Parkville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Parkville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baltimore (30%, 6 mi), Towson (10%, 4 mi), Cockeysville (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Parkville walkable?
Parkville is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Parkville without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 15% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Parkville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Parkville
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.