Most of Trappe commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
5% of workers have no commute at all; Maryland has 19%. Trappe has 190 jobs for 511 working residents. For jobs and income Trappe is better than 30% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Trappe and work: the main findings
The four measures behind Trappe’s grade
The poverty rate holds Trappe’s grade up (9.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,917, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Trappe’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Trappe could be anywhere from D to B.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Trappe
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Trappe workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 5% 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 daily commute in and out of Trappe
On a workday 503 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 182 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Trappe on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
23% of working residents work in Easton
Where Trappe clocks in
23% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Trappe: what the 190 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Trappe, 2013 → 2023: 174 → 190. 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 Trappe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Trappe
About 27% 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.
In Trappe, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.0% across Maryland, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 505 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.1% of Trappe households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Trappe’s commuters take a bus or train.
Trappe is 3,119th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,117 | Hunter TN | 1,918 | $52K | 13.7% | 4.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,118 | Georgetown CO | 1,217 | $79K | 13.4% | 10.5% | 24% | C |
| 3,119 | Trappe MD | 1,517 | $61K | 9.3% | 9.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,120 | Rankin PA | 1,975 | $48K | 24.9% | 10.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,121 | Delaware Township IN | 1,548 | $75K | 10.9% | 1.8% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Trappe, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
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 Trappe: questions
What is the median household income in Trappe?
$60,917 (±$18,075) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Trappe?
9.3%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Trappe?
23 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Trappe work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Easton (23%, 8 mi), Cambridge (10%, 8 mi), Baltimore (4%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Trappe walkable?
Trappe is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Trappe without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Trappe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Trappe
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.