Work & commute · Palisades Park

Work & commute in Palisades Park, NJ

Most working residents leave Palisades Park for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are New York (27%), Fort Lee (4%) and Englewood Cliffs (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

583 of 7,976 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,393 Palisades Park residents head out of town to work, 583 work right here, and 2,767 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palisades Park.

7,393live here, work elsewhere

583live and work here

2,767work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palisades Park goes to work

New York, NY13.1 mi away

27%2,174

Palisades Park (in town)right here

7%583

Fort Lee1.4 mi away

4%349

Englewood Cliffs3.8 mi away

3%219

Hackensack3.9 mi away

2%198

Englewood3.3 mi away

2%191

Ridgefield1.6 mi away

2%175

Jersey City10 mi away

2%151

Newark12.5 mi away

2%129

Ridgefield Park1.3 mi away

1%117

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%3,690

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

How far

How far Palisades Park commutes

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

46%

42%

46%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palisades Park is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palisades Park are

3,350 jobs are based in Palisades Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palisades Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palisades Park

3,350 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Palisades Park residents hold

7,976 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+12%

Jobs based in Palisades Park, 2013 → 2023: 2,990 → 3,350. 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.