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Work & commute in Twin Rivers · A commuter town

98% of Twin Rivers’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Twin Rivers for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are East Windsor (7%), New York (6%) and South Brunswick (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Work in town
2%
84 of 3,657 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
28 min
Less than NJ (31 min)
Work from home
19%
More than NJ (17%)
Jobs based here
1,379
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Twin Rivers?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

7% of working residents work in East Windsor

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Hightstown: 117 residents work here (3%)Trenton: 147 residents work here (4%)New York: 219 residents work here (6%)East Windsor: 268 residents work here (7%)West Windsor: 98 residents work here (3%)Cranbury: 170 residents work here (5%)JacksonHowellMonroe: 164 residents work here (4%)South Brunswick: 212 residents work here (6%)Hamilton: 137 residents work here (4%)PlainsboroNorth BrunswickEdison: 95 residents work here (3%)FranklinRenaissance at MonroeTwin RiversEast WindsorNew YorkSouth BrunswickCranburyMonroeTrentonTwin Rivers
1
East Windsor2.2 mi away
7%268
2
New York, NY40.1 mi away
6%219
3
South Brunswick8.5 mi away
6%212
4
Cranbury3.8 mi away
5%170
5
Monroe5.1 mi away
4%164
6
Trenton14.6 mi away
4%147
7
Hamilton10.4 mi away
4%137
8
Hightstown1.8 mi away
3%117
9
West Windsor7.4 mi away
3%98
10
Edison18.3 mi away
3%95
Everywhere elseother towns and states
56%2,030
The top trips

Where Twin Rivers clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

The jobs

Twin Rivers makes things: 45% of its jobs are in goods

1,379 jobs are based in Twin Rivers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Twin Rivers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Twin RiversJobs Twin Rivers residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms45%10%
Trade, transport & utilities17%27%
Services: health, schools, offices38%63%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less11%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%22%
Over $3,333 a month67%66%

Who does it

29 or younger18%22%
30 to 5458%53%
55 and older24%25%
+21%

Jobs based in Twin Rivers, 2013 → 2023: 1,143 → 1,379. 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.

Day and night

Twin Rivers quiets down on a workday

On a workday 3,573 residents head out to work, 84 work right here, and 1,295 people come in from elsewhere.

3,573live here, work elsewhere
84live and work here
1,295work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night8,400
Workday6,100
8,400live here− 3,600head out to work+ 1,300come in to work= 6,100on a workday

About 6,100 people are in Twin Rivers on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.38jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Twin Rivers commutes less than 14 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi45 miEast Windsor: 7% · 2.2 miNew York: 6% · 40.1 miSouth Brunswick: 6% · 8.5 miCranbury: 5% · 3.8 miMonroe: 4% · 5.1 miTrenton: 4% · 14.6 miHamilton: 4% · 10.4 miHightstown: 3% · 1.8 miWest Windsor: 3% · 7.4 miEdison: 3% · 18.3 miEast Windsor 7%New York 6%South Brunswick 6%Cranbury 5%Monroe 4%Twin Rivers
Twin RiversTop destinations (size = commuters)
35%Under 10 mi1,284 residents
36%10–24 mi1,320 residents
24%25–50 mi866 residents
5%Over 50 mi186 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New Jersey

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
215 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Twin Rivers28 min
New Jersey31 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
19%

of Twin Rivers workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.

About 2 in 10
Next door

16% of Twin Rivers works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to East Windsor (7%). Darker towns draw more of Twin Rivers’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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