With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Seabrook works elsewhere
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 6.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 26.3 in Baltimore. Seabrook has 3,693 jobs, against 8,703 working residents. For jobs and income Seabrook is better than 63% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Seabrook at work: what stands out
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Seabrook
Job access by car holds Seabrook’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Seabrook could be anywhere from B− to A−.
25% of working residents work in Washington
Where Seabrook clocks in
25% of workers
4% 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.
How a workday changes Seabrook
On a workday 8,478 residents head out to work, 225 work right here, and 3,468 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Seabrook on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Seabrook
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seabrook, 2013 → 2023: 2,752 → 3,693. 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 Seabrook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Seabrook, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seabrook workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,857 commuters (the 14% 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 far Seabrook goes to work
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Seabrook
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,162 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 23% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 87% 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). 7.8% of Seabrook households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Seabrook’s commuters take a bus or train.
994th of 1,915: where Seabrook ranks among U.S. towns of 13,000 to 25,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Colesville MD | 14,519 | $131K | 3.4% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Arnold MD | 24,303 | $142K | 3.1% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Damascus MD | 17,640 | $159K | 3.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 992 | Palmetto Estates FL | 16,129 | $82K | 11.6% | 4.6% | 2% | B |
| 993 | Valencia West AZ | 14,728 | $100K | 15.0% | 2.8% | 1% | B |
| 994 | Seabrook MD | 18,317 | $98K | 11.8% | 6.5% | 3% | B |
| 995 | Bull Run VA | 16,859 | $90K | 13.7% | 4.6% | 3% | B |
| 996 | Murraysville NC | 16,339 | $81K | 4.5% | 5.8% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,915 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Seabrook, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
How Seabrook compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Greenbelt (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Seabrook workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seabrook | – | B | A | 34 min | $98,157 |
| New Carrollton | under 2% | B+ | A+ | 37 min | $81,509 |
| Greenbelt | 2% | B− | A+ | 34 min | $85,997 |
| Lanham | under 2% | A− | A | 33 min | $103,556 |
| Glenn Dale | under 2% | A | B− | 34 min | $134,333 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Seabrook’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 Seabrook: questions
What is the median household income in Seabrook?
$98,157 (±$7,647) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seabrook?
11.8%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seabrook?
34 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seabrook work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (25%, 10 mi), Baltimore (4%, 26 mi), Greenbelt (2%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seabrook walkable?
Seabrook is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seabrook without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 23% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seabrook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seabrook
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.