Work & commute · Mount Olive

Work & commute in Mount Olive, NJ

Most working residents leave Mount Olive for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are New York (5%), Parsippany-Troy Hills (4%) and Morristown (4%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

1,461 of 14,594 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,133 Mount Olive residents head out of town to work, 1,461 work right here, and 8,908 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Olive.

13,133live here, work elsewhere

1,461live and work here

8,908work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Olive goes to work

Mount Olive (in town)right here

10%1,461

New York, NY44.3 mi away

5%700

Parsippany-Troy Hills16.7 mi away

4%652

Morristown14.6 mi away

4%585

Roxbury5 mi away

3%447

Randolph8.7 mi away

2%359

Hanover16.7 mi away

2%304

Newark31.3 mi away

2%276

Denville13.3 mi away

2%261

Washington6.3 mi away

2%249

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%9,300

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

How far

How far Mount Olive commutes

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

26%

39%

29%

26%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Olive is a commuter town

0.71jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Olive are

10,369 jobs are based in Mount Olive. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Olive’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Olive

10,369 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Mount Olive residents hold

14,594 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

−7%

Jobs based in Mount Olive, 2013 → 2023: 11,192 → 10,369. 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.