Work & commute · Montclair

Work & commute in Montclair, NJ

Most working residents leave Montclair for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are New York (20%), Newark (6%) and Jersey City (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
9%
1,595 of 16,792 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
36 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
36%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 15,197 Montclair residents head out of town to work, 1,595 work right here, and 16,105 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Montclair.

15,197live here, work elsewhere
1,595live and work here
16,105work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Montclair goes to work

Glen RidgeEast OrangeSecaucusPatersonCliftonParamusJersey CityNewarkNew YorkCedar GroveWest OrangeVeronaLivingstonMontclairLittle FallsParsippany-Troy HillsBellevilleBloomfieldNew YorkNewarkJersey CityParsippany-Troy HillsPatersonCliftonParamusSecaucusLivingstonMontclair
1
New York, NY18.1 mi away
20%3,341
2
Montclair (in town)right here
9%1,595
3
Newark7.2 mi away
6%1,072
4
Jersey City11 mi away
3%479
52%342
6
Paterson6.7 mi away
2%260
7
Clifton3.7 mi away
1%249
8
Paramus11.2 mi away
1%215
9
Secaucus8.1 mi away
1%212
10
Livingston6.8 mi away
1%190
Everywhere elseother towns and states
53%8,837

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

How far

How far Montclair commutes

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

42%Under 10 mi
44%10–24 mi
8%25–50 mi
6%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Montclair is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Montclair are

17,700 jobs are based in Montclair. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Montclair’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Montclair

17,700 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)3%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)89%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month21%
Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Montclair residents hold

16,792 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)7%
Trade, transport & utilities15%
Services (health, schools, offices…)78%
$1,250 a month or less10%
$1,251–$3,333 a month15%
Over $3,333 a month74%
+0%

Jobs based in Montclair, 2013 → 2023: 17,656 → 17,700. 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.

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