Lore, J. C., Oyster House · Photo: Pubdog at en.wikipedia · Public domainHouseholds in Solomons earn more than those in 73% of U.S. towns
28% of workers have no commute at all; Maryland has 19%. Poverty touches 0.6% of residents, where Maryland as a whole has 9.4%. For jobs and income Solomons is better than 77% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Solomons
The better-paid jobs are outside Solomons
69% of Solomons residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 31% of the jobs based in Solomons pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Solomons are held by workers 29 or younger, against 18% of Solomons’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Solomons than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Solomons fell from 1,507 in 2013 to 1,076 in 2023, −29%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 831 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Solomons’ Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Solomons’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Solomons’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Solomons could be anywhere from B to A.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Solomons
1,076 jobs are based in Solomons.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Solomons, 2013 → 2023: 1,507 → 1,076. 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 Solomons’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Solomons, and who commutes in
On a workday 782 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 1,027 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Solomons on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in California
Where Solomons clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
Solomons’ commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Solomons workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 634 commuters (the 28% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Solomons
About 28% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Solomons
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.0% across Maryland, on an EPA index of 7.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 875 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 5.7% of Solomons households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Solomons’ commuters take a bus or train.
928th of 5,207: where Solomons ranks among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Naval Academy MD | 3,006 | $122K | 1.5% | 4.4% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 926 | Danby NY | 3,268 | $100K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| 927 | Warwick Township PA | 2,599 | $105K | 4.7% | 5.0% | 4% | A− |
| 928 | Solomons MD | 2,440 | $95K | 0.6% | 3.1% | 6% | A− |
| 929 | Hampden-Sydney VA | 1,769 | $155K | 0.0% | 3.6% | 6% | A− |
| 930 | Alexandria Township MN | 3,114 | $94K | 6.1% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | 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 Solomons, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
Work in the towns next to Solomons
The biggest share goes to Lusby (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Solomons’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 Solomons: questions
What is the median household income in Solomons?
$94,963 (±$33,004) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Solomons?
0.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Solomons?
27 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Solomons work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are California (8%, 3 mi), Washington (7%, 50 mi), Prince Frederick (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Solomons walkable?
Solomons is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Solomons without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Solomons, from the people who make the trip.
More of Solomons
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.