Work & commute · Cliffside Park

Work & commute in Cliffside Park, NJ

Most working residents leave Cliffside Park for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are New York (32%), Jersey City (3%) and Fort Lee (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

514 of 10,601 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,087 Cliffside Park residents head out of town to work, 514 work right here, and 2,016 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cliffside Park.

10,087live here, work elsewhere

514live and work here

2,016work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cliffside Park goes to work

New York, NY11.3 mi away

32%3,396

Cliffside Park (in town)right here

5%514

Jersey City8.6 mi away

3%344

Fort Lee2.2 mi away

3%292

Hackensack5.5 mi away

2%257

North Bergen2.8 mi away

2%222

Paramus9.7 mi away

2%199

Edgewater0.8 mi away

2%174

Englewood4.8 mi away

2%164

Newark11.8 mi away

2%163

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%4,876

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

How far

How far Cliffside Park commutes

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

39%

49%

39%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cliffside Park is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cliffside Park are

2,530 jobs are based in Cliffside Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cliffside Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cliffside Park

2,530 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Cliffside Park residents hold

10,601 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+9%

Jobs based in Cliffside Park, 2013 → 2023: 2,320 → 2,530. 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.