Photo: myself (User:Piotrus) · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Sharpsburg commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Sharpsburg report 46 jobs, and 228 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Sharpsburg for work; outside it, Hagerstown is the main destination (10%, 12 miles). The trip to work takes 33 minutes on average (Maryland 31, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Sharpsburg
How many people are in Sharpsburg by day
On a workday 228 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 390 people are in Sharpsburg on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Where Sharpsburg’s working residents head each day
Where Sharpsburg clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
What Sharpsburg’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sharpsburg, 2014 → 2024: 166 → 46. 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 Sharpsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sharpsburg’s commute takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sharpsburg workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 264 commuters (the 17% 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.
Miles to work from Sharpsburg
About 20% 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 2024.
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 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 Sharpsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Sharpsburg?
$71,500 (±$13,762) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sharpsburg?
7.0%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sharpsburg?
33 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sharpsburg work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hagerstown (10%, 12 mi), Frederick (8%, 18 mi), Ballenger Creek (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Sharpsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sharpsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sharpsburg
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.