Work & commute · Fair Lawn

Work & commute in Fair Lawn, NJ

Most working residents leave Fair Lawn for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are New York (22%), Jersey City (3%) and Paramus (2%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

299 of 7,310 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,011 Fair Lawn residents head out of town to work, 299 work right here, and 11,195 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fair Lawn.

7,011live here, work elsewhere

299live and work here

11,195work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fair Lawn goes to work

New York, NY21.1 mi away

22%1,616

Fair Lawn (in town)right here

4%299

Jersey City15.7 mi away

3%214

Paramus2.6 mi away

2%179

Newark14.9 mi away

2%157

Hackensack4.9 mi away

2%123

Paterson2.8 mi away

2%119

Edison32.2 mi away

1%90

Ridgewood3.2 mi away

1%80

Woodbridge27.5 mi away

1%74

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%4,359

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

How far

How far Fair Lawn commutes

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

28%

47%

13%

11%

28%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fair Lawn is a job hub

1.57jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Fair Lawn are

11,494 jobs are based in Fair Lawn. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fair Lawn’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fair Lawn

11,494 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Fair Lawn residents hold

7,310 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

−4%

Jobs based in Fair Lawn, 2013 → 2023: 11,963 → 11,494. 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.