St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainTall Timbers has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 35 minutes, where Maryland has 31 and the U.S. 26. Employers in Tall Timbers report 44 jobs, against 146 working residents. Hardly any work in Tall Timbers itself; outside it, California draws the most (19%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Tall Timbers by day
On a workday 145 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Tall Timbers on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 people from Tall Timbers work
Where Tall Timbers clocks in
19% of workers
5% 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.
Tall Timbers makes things: 30% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tall Timbers, 2014 → 2024: 75 → 44. 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 Tall Timbers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 35 minutes from Tall Timbers
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tall Timbers workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 176 commuters (the 20% 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.
The distance from Tall Timbers to work
About 39% 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.
Tall Timbers and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tall Timbers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tall Timbers | – | — | — | 35 min | $195,982 |
| Piney Point | under 2% | B | C+ | 35 min | $129,018 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tall Timbers’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 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 Tall Timbers: questions
What is the median household income in Tall Timbers?
$195,982 (±$79,260) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tall Timbers?
4.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tall Timbers?
35 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tall Timbers work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are California (19%, 10 mi), Leonardtown (5%, 11 mi), Lexington Park (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Tall Timbers 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 Tall Timbers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tall Timbers
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.