Work & commute · Seaside Heights

Work & commute in Seaside Heights, NJ

Most working residents leave Seaside Heights for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Toms River (16%), Lakewood (6%) and Brick (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

71 of 903 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 832 Seaside Heights residents head out of town to work, 71 work right here, and 507 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Seaside Heights.

832live here, work elsewhere

71live and work here

507work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Seaside Heights goes to work

Toms River5.8 mi away

16%142

Seaside Heights (in town)right here

8%71

Lakewood11.1 mi away

6%57

Brick8.3 mi away

5%42

Berkeley6.5 mi away

4%32

New York, NY50.1 mi away

3%29

Newark54.1 mi away

2%18

Howell17.5 mi away

2%18

Wall15.3 mi away

2%17

Lavallette1.7 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%464

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

How far

How far Seaside Heights commutes

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

35%

23%

20%

35%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Seaside Heights is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Seaside Heights are

578 jobs are based in Seaside Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seaside Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Seaside Heights

578 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)92%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Seaside Heights residents hold

903 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+21%

Jobs based in Seaside Heights, 2013 → 2023: 476 → 578. 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.