99% of Packanack Lake’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Packanack Lake for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Wayne Township (12%), New York (12%) and Paterson (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.
What stands out about work in Packanack Lake
Home offices are common in Packanack Lake
32% of Packanack Lake workers work from home, against 17% across New Jersey. Time on the road ↓
Packanack Lake has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Packanack Lake went from 1,021 in 2013 to 1,666 in 2023, +63%. The jobs ↓
Packanack Lake’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Packanack Lake is New York, NY, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (383) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Three in four Packanack Lake workers earn over $40,000 a year
76% of Packanack Lake’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New Jersey
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Packanack Lake workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
What the 1,666 jobs in Packanack Lake are
1,666 jobs are based in Packanack Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Packanack Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Packanack Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1,021 → 1,666. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Half of Packanack Lake commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Packanack Lake quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,274 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 1,618 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Packanack Lake on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.50 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Wayne Township
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Packanack Lake clocks in
12% of workers
12% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Packanack Lake and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Packanack Lake’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Packanack Lake
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Packanack Lake, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.