Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Woodsboro works elsewhere
Employers in Woodsboro report 298 jobs; 577 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Woodsboro is better than 58% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (B−). Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Woodsboro: the gist
The figures behind Woodsboro’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Woodsboro’s grade up ($116,964, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Woodsboro’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, Woodsboro could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
23% of working residents work in Frederick
Where Woodsboro 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.
How many people are in Woodsboro by day
On a workday 568 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 289 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Woodsboro on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Jobs in Woodsboro: what the 298 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodsboro, 2013 → 2023: 278 → 298. 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 Woodsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Woodsboro: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodsboro workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 672 commuters (the 14% 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 Woodsboro
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.
Getting around Woodsboro: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.0% across Maryland.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 778 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). 4.9% of Woodsboro households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Woodsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Woodsboro next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 975th of 3,771 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Galesville MD | 1,062 | $205K | 2.7% | 6.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Queen Anne MD | 1,443 | $103K | 4.0% | 19.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 973 | Atoka NM | 1,347 | $84K | 3.3% | 0.0% | 3% | B |
| 974 | Coal Creek Township IN | 1,489 | $85K | 4.4% | 3.9% | 2% | B |
| 975 | Woodsboro MD | 1,136 | $117K | 16.6% | 2.5% | 2% | B |
| 976 | Palouse WA | 1,019 | $89K | 3.1% | 0.5% | 5% | B |
| 977 | Little Beaver Township PA | 1,192 | $61K | 5.4% | 3.3% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Woodsboro, 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 Woodsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Woodsboro?
$116,964 (±$30,513) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Woodsboro?
16.6%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodsboro?
33 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodsboro work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frederick (23%, 9 mi), Rockville (4%, 32 mi), Ballenger Creek (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Woodsboro walkable?
Woodsboro is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Woodsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Woodsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodsboro
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.