Work & commute · Bound Brook

Work & commute in Bound Brook, NJ

Most working residents leave Bound Brook for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are New York (6%), Bridgewater (6%) and Franklin (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

202 of 5,729 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,527 Bound Brook residents head out of town to work, 202 work right here, and 2,110 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bound Brook.

5,527live here, work elsewhere

202live and work here

2,110work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bound Brook goes to work

New York, NY32.1 mi away

6%334

Bridgewater3.9 mi away

6%325

Franklin6.3 mi away

5%287

Edison10.8 mi away

4%243

Bound Brook (in town)right here

4%202

Piscataway4.3 mi away

3%198

New Brunswick7.4 mi away

3%167

Newark22 mi away

3%162

Hillsborough8.5 mi away

2%128

South Plainfield6.4 mi away

2%124

Everywhere elseother towns and states

62%3,559

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Bound Brook commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

42%

34%

20%

42%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bound Brook is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.40 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Bound Brook are

2,312 jobs are based in Bound Brook. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bound Brook’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bound Brook

2,312 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Bound Brook residents hold

5,729 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+7%

Jobs based in Bound Brook, 2013 → 2023: 2,159 → 2,312. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.