Work & commute · Point Pleasant Beach

Work & commute in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Most working residents leave Point Pleasant Beach for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Brick (8%), Wall (6%) and Toms River (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

293 of 1,714 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,421 Point Pleasant Beach residents head out of town to work, 293 work right here, and 2,799 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Point Pleasant Beach.

1,421live here, work elsewhere

293live and work here

2,799work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Point Pleasant Beach goes to work

Point Pleasant Beach (in town)right here

17%293

Brick3.9 mi away

8%129

Wall5.7 mi away

6%106

Toms River9.3 mi away

5%81

Lakewood8.2 mi away

5%80

Point Pleasant1.7 mi away

4%65

Neptune8.4 mi away

3%44

New York, NY39.8 mi away

2%40

Howell10.4 mi away

2%30

Brielle1.3 mi away

2%26

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%820

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

How far

How far Point Pleasant Beach commutes

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

50%

19%

11%

50%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Point Pleasant Beach is a job hub

1.80jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Point Pleasant Beach are

3,092 jobs are based in Point Pleasant Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Point Pleasant Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Point Pleasant Beach

3,092 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Point Pleasant Beach residents hold

1,714 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+8%

Jobs based in Point Pleasant Beach, 2013 → 2023: 2,873 → 3,092. 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.