Work & commute · Mountain Lakes

Work & commute in Mountain Lakes, NJ

Most working residents leave Mountain Lakes for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New York (8%), Parsippany-Troy Hills (8%) and Denville (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

104 of 1,875 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,771 Mountain Lakes residents head out of town to work, 104 work right here, and 2,711 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain Lakes.

1,771live here, work elsewhere

104live and work here

2,711work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain Lakes goes to work

New York, NY30.5 mi away

8%145

Parsippany-Troy Hills2.1 mi away

8%144

Mountain Lakes (in town)right here

6%104

Denville2.4 mi away

4%69

Morristown6.5 mi away

3%56

East Hanover6.3 mi away

3%51

Newark18 mi away

3%48

Florham Park8 mi away

2%43

Livingston9.1 mi away

2%35

Jersey City23.1 mi away

2%30

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%1,150

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

How far

How far Mountain Lakes commutes

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

40%

38%

16%

40%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain Lakes is a job hub

1.50jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain Lakes are

2,815 jobs are based in Mountain Lakes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain Lakes

2,815 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Mountain Lakes residents hold

1,875 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month77%

+21%

Jobs based in Mountain Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 2,318 → 2,815. 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.