Work & commute · Little Falls

Work & commute in Little Falls, NJ

Most working residents leave Little Falls for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are New York (11%), Paterson (4%) and Newark (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

311 of 6,482 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 6,171 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 311 work right here, and 4,993 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

6,171live here, work elsewhere

311live and work here

4,993work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

New York, NY20.7 mi away

11%732

Little Falls (in town)right here

5%311

Paterson3.9 mi away

4%271

Newark10.8 mi away

4%242

Wayne5 mi away

3%226

Clifton3.1 mi away

3%206

Fairfield4.6 mi away

3%182

Parsippany-Troy Hills10.8 mi away

2%162

Totowa1.9 mi away

2%150

Paramus9.1 mi away

2%138

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%3,862

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

How far

How far Little Falls commutes

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

48%

41%

48%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.82jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

5,304 jobs are based in Little Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Little Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Little Falls

5,304 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

6,482 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−24%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 6,990 → 5,304. 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.