Work & commute · East Windsor

Work & commute in East Windsor, NJ

Most working residents leave East Windsor for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New York (7%), South Brunswick (5%) and Hamilton (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

832 of 13,771 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,939 East Windsor residents head out of town to work, 832 work right here, and 6,828 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Windsor.

12,939live here, work elsewhere

832live and work here

6,828work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Windsor goes to work

New York, NY41.9 mi away

7%934

East Windsor (in town)right here

6%832

South Brunswick8.7 mi away

5%633

Hamilton8.3 mi away

4%547

Cranbury3.8 mi away

4%497

Trenton12.4 mi away

4%484

West Windsor5.4 mi away

3%474

Robbinsville4.1 mi away

3%396

Monroe6.9 mi away

3%394

Plainsboro6 mi away

3%382

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%8,198

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

How far

How far East Windsor commutes

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

36%

33%

25%

36%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Windsor is a commuter town

0.56jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East Windsor are

7,660 jobs are based in East Windsor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs East Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in East Windsor

7,660 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

Jobs East Windsor residents hold

13,771 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+3%

Jobs based in East Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 7,429 → 7,660. 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.