Majority of Residents Live and Work in Frederick

A recent article from the Frederick News-Post reviews the results from a Maryland transportation survey.

Nearly 6 out of 10 workers in Frederick County have found work in the county and more than 7 out of every 10 Frederick County jobs are filled by Frederick County residents, according to the Census Transportation Planning Package on the Maryland Department of Planning web site.

“The public perception is that everybody is commuting out,” Frederick County Commissioner Jan Gardner said.

It is not a hard thing to preceive when you are sitting in traffic on 270 South everyday! The article continues:

Commissioners President John Thompson Jr. feels that the jobs here don’t keep up with the cost of living increase rapidly rising property values create.

“I think it’s safe to assume that the large wage-earning jobs are not here in Frederick,” Mr. Thompson said. “It’s been a long-standing trend on the East Coast that people tend to live upwind, upstream and uphill from where they work.”

The planning package also shows that the county is able to maintain a majority of its workforce in the county at all wage levels, though it does show the majority decreasing as wages go higher. In households earning less than $15,000 a year, 77 percent of the workers work in Frederick County, but in households earning more than $100,000 a year, only 51.8 percent of workers work in the county.

I hope that statistic will change as more buisnesses move their opperations to Frederick. Are you lucky enough to live AND work in Frederick?