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Work & commute in Crosswicks · A commuter town

99% of Crosswicks’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Crosswicks for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Trenton (10%), Hamilton (9%) and Chesterfield (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Work in town
1%
5 of 389 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
31 min
More than NJ (31 min)
Work from home
27%
More than NJ (17%)
Jobs based here
181
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Crosswicks?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

10% of working residents work in Trenton

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

TuckertonTrenton: 37 residents work here (10%)PatersonPrinceton: 16 residents work here (4%)Jersey City: 8 residents work here (2%)Philadelphia: 17 residents work here (4%)North HanoverWillingboroWest Windsor: 16 residents work here (4%)StaffordBordentownBurlington: 11 residents work here (3%)Chesterfield: 19 residents work here (5%)South BrunswickWinslowHamilton: 35 residents work here (9%)Robbinsville: 10 residents work here (3%)Lawrence: 16 residents work here (4%)CrosswicksGrovevilleTrentonHamiltonChesterfieldPhiladelphiaPrincetonWest WindsorCrosswicks
1
Trenton8.9 mi away
10%37
2
Hamilton5 mi away
9%35
3
Chesterfield2 mi away
5%19
4
Philadelphia, PA27.8 mi away
4%17
5
Princeton15.2 mi away
4%16
6
West Windsor10.4 mi away
4%16
7
Lawrence11.6 mi away
4%16
8
Burlington12 mi away
3%11
9
Robbinsville6.2 mi away
3%10
10
Jersey City49.6 mi away
2%8
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%204
The top trips

Where Crosswicks clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 31 minutes each way, about the NJ average

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
236 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Crosswicks31 min
New Jersey31 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
27%

of Crosswicks workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.

About 3 in 10
Day and night

Crosswicks quiets down on a workday

On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.

384live here, work elsewhere
5live and work here
176work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night900
Workday690
900live here− 380head out to work+ 180come in to work= 690on a workday

About 690 people are in Crosswicks on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.47jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Crosswicks commutes less than 14 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi60 miTrenton: 10% · 8.9 miHamilton: 9% · 5 miChesterfield: 5% · 2 miPhiladelphia: 4% · 27.8 miPrinceton: 4% · 15.2 miWest Windsor: 4% · 10.4 miLawrence: 4% · 11.6 miBurlington: 3% · 12 miRobbinsville: 3% · 6.2 miJersey City: 2% · 49.6 miTrenton 10%Hamilton 9%Chesterfield 5%Philadelphia 4%Princeton 4%Crosswicks
CrosswicksTop destinations (size = commuters)
35%Under 10 mi135 residents
34%10–24 mi131 residents
20%25–50 mi79 residents
11%Over 50 mi43 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

69% of the jobs in Crosswicks pay over $3,333 a month

181 jobs are based in Crosswicks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crosswicks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in CrosswicksJobs Crosswicks residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms2%11%
Trade, transport & utilities24%17%
Services: health, schools, offices74%72%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less15%11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month16%15%
Over $3,333 a month69%74%

Who does it

29 or younger21%21%
30 to 5449%61%
55 and older30%19%
+654%

Jobs based in Crosswicks, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 181. 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.

Next door

14% of Crosswicks works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Hamilton (9%). Darker towns draw more of Crosswicks’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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