With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Secretary works elsewhere
57 jobs are based in Secretary, against 201 working residents. Hardly any work in Secretary; the top destination outside it is Cambridge (22%, 8 miles). 3% of workers work from home, 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
Where Secretary stands out on work
Secretary and Cambridge trade workers both ways
Cambridge is the top workplace for Secretary residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Secretary come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Secretary is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Secretary, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Secretary has about 330 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Secretary workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 19% across Maryland. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 201 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Secretary commutes to
Where Secretary clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
Who leaves Secretary for work, and who comes in
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Secretary on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Secretary
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Secretary workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 281 commuters (the 3% 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.
Secretary is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Secretary, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 57. 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 Secretary’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Secretary
About 26% 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.
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 Secretary: questions
What is the median household income in Secretary?
$82,721 (±$17,352) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Secretary?
5.5%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Secretary?
25 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Secretary work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cambridge (22%, 8 mi), Easton (7%, 13 mi), Salisbury (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Secretary without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Secretary, from the people who make the trip.
More of Secretary
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.