Piney Point Coast Guard Light Station · Photo: Aaron Linville · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Piney Point top those of 91% of U.S. towns
Commuters spend 35 minutes getting to work on average, next to 31 for Maryland and 26 for the U.S. 7.3% of residents are in poverty, where Maryland as a whole has 9.4%. Only 2% stay in Piney Point for work; outside it, Leonardtown is the main destination (12%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Piney Point: the figures worth knowing
Where Piney Point’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Piney Point is better than 63% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Piney Point’s grade up ($129,018, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Piney Point’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Piney Point could be anywhere from C to A−.
How far Piney Point’s workers travel
About 34% 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.
Who commutes out of Piney Point, and who commutes in
On a workday 358 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 202 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Piney Point on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.57 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where people from Piney Point work
Where Piney Point clocks in
12% of workers
12% 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.
Goods jobs make up 63% of work in Piney Point
209 jobs are based in Piney Point.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piney Point, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 209. 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 Piney Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Piney Point takes about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piney Point workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 16% 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.
Piney Point is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Piney Point is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Piney Point 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 573 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). 10.0% of Piney Point households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piney Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Piney Point next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,104th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | New Market MD | 1,609 | $203K | 0.8% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,102 | Arena WI | 1,496 | $97K | 8.1% | 1.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,103 | Tomah WI | 1,464 | $98K | 6.1% | 0.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,104 | Piney Point MD | 1,274 | $129K | 7.3% | 5.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,105 | Bloomfield NY | 1,326 | $80K | 8.8% | 4.4% | 6% | B |
| 1,106 | Bokescreek Township OH | 1,366 | $85K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Piney Point, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
Piney Point and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piney Point workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Point | – | B | C+ | 35 min | $129,018 |
| Tall Timbers | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tall Timbers: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Piney Point’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 Piney Point: questions
What is the median household income in Piney Point?
$129,018 (±$38,495) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piney Point?
7.3%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piney Point?
35 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piney Point work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Leonardtown (12%, 12 mi), California (12%, 10 mi), Washington (6%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piney Point walkable?
Piney Point is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piney Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Piney Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piney Point
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.