Work & commute · Little Egg Harbor

Work & commute in Little Egg Harbor, NJ

Most working residents leave Little Egg Harbor for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Stafford (6%), Toms River (5%) and Atlantic City (4%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

878 of 9,454 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,576 Little Egg Harbor residents head out of town to work, 878 work right here, and 1,822 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Egg Harbor.

8,576live here, work elsewhere

878live and work here

1,822work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Little Egg Harbor goes to work

Little Egg Harbor (in town)right here

9%878

Stafford6.2 mi away

6%593

Toms River26.5 mi away

5%479

Atlantic City18.8 mi away

4%423

Egg Harbor23 mi away

3%292

New York, NY74.1 mi away

3%262

Tuckerton2.8 mi away

2%231

Galloway12.4 mi away

2%222

Lakewood31.5 mi away

2%200

Brick31.9 mi away

2%154

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%5,720

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

How far

How far Little Egg Harbor commutes

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

20%

23%

28%

29%

20%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Little Egg Harbor is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Egg Harbor are

2,700 jobs are based in Little Egg Harbor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Little Egg Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Little Egg Harbor

2,700 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Little Egg Harbor residents hold

9,454 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+24%

Jobs based in Little Egg Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 2,179 → 2,700. 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.