93% of Pompton Plains’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Pompton Plains for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Pequannock Township (8%), Wayne Township (7%) and New York (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.
What stands out about work in Pompton Plains
Pompton Plains trades workers with the towns around it
Pompton Plains has about as many jobs (4,697) as working residents (4,825), but they are mostly different people: 4,502 residents leave for work each day while 4,374 people come in. Only 7% of the jobs in Pompton Plains are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Pompton Plains’ commute
The biggest draw, Wayne Township, gets only 7% of working residents, and 64% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Pompton Plains residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 4,502 residents head out to work, 323 work right here, and 4,374 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Pequannock Township
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Pompton Plains clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Pompton Plains 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.
What the 4,697 jobs in Pompton Plains are
4,697 jobs are based in Pompton Plains. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pompton Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pompton Plains, 2013 → 2023: 4,103 → 4,697. 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.
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 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pompton Plains workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
11% of Pompton Plains works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Wayne Township (7%). Darker towns draw more of Pompton Plains’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Pompton Plains
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pompton Plains, 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.