Work & commute · Prospect Park

Work & commute in Prospect Park, NJ

Most working residents leave Prospect Park for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Paterson (11%), New York (6%) and Wayne (5%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

106 of 2,821 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,715 Prospect Park residents head out of town to work, 106 work right here, and 509 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Prospect Park.

2,715live here, work elsewhere

106live and work here

509work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Prospect Park goes to work

Paterson1.9 mi away

11%314

New York, NY22.9 mi away

6%169

Wayne3.7 mi away

5%128

Prospect Park (in town)right here

4%106

Paramus5.4 mi away

4%101

Hawthorne1.3 mi away

3%75

Newark15 mi away

3%75

Hackensack7.6 mi away

2%70

Totowa3.5 mi away

2%64

Clifton5.5 mi away

2%55

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%1,664

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

How far

How far Prospect Park commutes

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

57%

28%

57%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Prospect Park is a commuter town

0.22jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Prospect Park are

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

Jobs based in Prospect Park

615 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Prospect Park residents hold

2,821 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+17%

Jobs based in Prospect Park, 2013 → 2023: 526 → 615. 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.