Baltimore

City Commute Profile

Baltimore, MD

Where Baltimore’s 250,532 resident workers go each day — 43.6% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Towson.

MarylandLODES 2023 data
46
Commute Score

46 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Baltimore at a glance
Employed Residents
250,532
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
10.8mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
43.6%
Share working within the area
Work from home
17.8%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Towson
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Baltimore proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Baltimore commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Baltimore

250,532 commutes, one dot at a time

Baltimore

Where 250,532 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Baltimore, by worker count.

1Baltimore0.0 mi109,214
2Towson5.6 mi10,672
3Columbia14.7 mi6,033
4Cockeysville11.4 mi5,147
5Washington34.8 mi4,837
6Woodlawn6.5 mi3,874
7Catonsville6.8 mi3,719
8Glen Burnie10.8 mi3,467

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Baltimore.

1Baltimore0.0 mi109,214
2Dundalk6.7 mi8,788
3Towson5.6 mi7,904
4Columbia14.7 mi5,845
5Ellicott City12.0 mi5,465
6Essex8.8 mi5,161
7Woodlawn6.5 mi4,832
8Parkville6.1 mi4,719

Top industries

The sectors that employ Baltimore’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance21.5%
EDEducational Services14.2%
PAPublic Administration11.2%
TRTransportation and Warehousing7.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services7.0%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.0%
AFAccommodation and Food Services5.5%
RTRetail Trade4.0%
OSOther Services (except Public Administration)3.2%

Baltimore city profile

Who lives in Baltimore — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
573,243
Median age
36.2yrs
Median household income
$62,177
Median home value
$229,600
Median gross rent
$1,331/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
36.1%
Poverty rate
19.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Baltimore

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Baltimore

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).