Work & commute · Maple Shade

Work & commute in Maple Shade, NJ

Most working residents leave Maple Shade for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (10%), Cherry Hill (8%) and Mount Laurel (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

508 of 10,273 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,765 Maple Shade residents head out of town to work, 508 work right here, and 5,139 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Maple Shade.

9,765live here, work elsewhere

508live and work here

5,139work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Maple Shade goes to work

Philadelphia, PA8.3 mi away

10%1,029

Cherry Hill3.3 mi away

8%780

Mount Laurel5 mi away

7%759

Moorestown3.3 mi away

5%517

Maple Shade (in town)right here

5%508

Evesham8.3 mi away

4%429

Camden6 mi away

3%287

Pennsauken3.5 mi away

3%272

Voorhees7.5 mi away

2%224

Trenton22.4 mi away

2%188

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%5,280

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

How far

How far Maple Shade commutes

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

57%

19%

10%

14%

57%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Maple Shade is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Maple Shade are

5,647 jobs are based in Maple Shade. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Maple Shade’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Maple Shade

5,647 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Maple Shade residents hold

10,273 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+6%

Jobs based in Maple Shade, 2013 → 2023: 5,309 → 5,647. 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.