St. George's Parish Vestry House · Photo: E.H. Pickering · Public domainHousehold incomes in Perryman trail those of 98% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 35.1% of residents (Maryland 9.4%). Perryman grades D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Home is the office for 11% of workers, next to 19% for Maryland as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Perryman, in a few figures
Stores, warehouses and trucking
72% of the jobs in Perryman are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Perryman is where the jobs are
Perryman has 2,333 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,300 people are in town, 52% more than the 2,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Perryman’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Perryman is Baltimore, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (153) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The biggest group of Perryman’s workers comes from Baltimore
186 of the people who work in Perryman live in Baltimore, 24 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Perryman’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Perryman is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Perryman’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Perryman could be anywhere from D to C+.
70% of the jobs in Perryman pay over $3,333 a month
2,333 jobs are based in Perryman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perryman, 2013 → 2023: 1,907 → 2,333. 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 Perryman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Perryman on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,184 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 2,307 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Perryman on a workday afternoon, 52% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Perryman’s workers travel
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.
Where Perryman’s workforce comes from
Where Perryman clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
Time on the road from Perryman: 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 Perryman workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 800 commuters (the 11% 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.
Getting around Perryman: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perryman is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 897 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 41% 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 3.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 78% 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). 35.0% of Perryman households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Perryman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Perryman comes 4,649th on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,647 | Trenton ME | 1,656 | $60K | 18.2% | 4.6% | 8% | D |
| 4,648 | Swift Trail Junction AZ | 2,859 | $63K | 16.2% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,649 | Perryman MD | 2,174 | $35K | 35.1% | 12.8% | 2% | D |
| 4,650 | Coats NC | 2,370 | $37K | 21.6% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| 4,651 | Sanborn Township MI | 2,099 | $62K | 11.7% | 12.5% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Perryman, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
Work next door: 10% of Perryman’s workers
The biggest share goes to Aberdeen (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Perryman’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 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 Perryman: questions
What is the median household income in Perryman?
$35,392 (±$7,514) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perryman?
35.1%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perryman?
27 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perryman work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baltimore (13%, 24 mi), Aberdeen (6%, 4 mi), Riverside (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perryman walkable?
Perryman is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perryman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 35% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perryman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perryman
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. 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.