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Work & commute in Vauxhall · Balanced

98% of Vauxhall’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Vauxhall for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Newark (11%), New York (9%) and Union (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Work in town
2%
38 of 2,417 working residents
Typical commute
11 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
29 min
Less than NJ (31 min)
Work from home
7%
Less than NJ (17%)
Jobs based here
2,340
Balanced

What kind of work town is Vauxhall?

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

★ What stands out · The jobs

What the 2,340 jobs in Vauxhall are

2,340 jobs are based in Vauxhall. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vauxhall’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in VauxhallJobs Vauxhall residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms5%8%
Trade, transport & utilities68%22%
Services: health, schools, offices27%70%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less18%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month40%25%
Over $3,333 a month42%63%

Who does it

29 or younger27%20%
30 to 5445%53%
55 and older28%27%
+26%

Jobs based in Vauxhall, 2013 → 2023: 1,854 → 2,340. 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

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,379 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 2,302 people come in from elsewhere.

2,379live here, work elsewhere
38live and work here
2,302work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night6,200
Workday6,100
6,200live here− 2,400head out to work+ 2,300come in to work= 6,100on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.97jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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.

The commute map

11% of working residents work in Newark

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

Morristown: 58 residents work here (2%)East Orange: 53 residents work here (2%)Perth AmboyElizabeth: 103 residents work here (4%)Jersey City: 81 residents work here (3%)Newark: 277 residents work here (11%)New York: 214 residents work here (9%)IrvingtonMillburnMaplewoodUnion: 158 residents work here (7%)Parsippany-Troy Hills: 47 residents work here (2%)SpringfieldEdison: 48 residents work here (2%)Woodbridge: 46 residents work here (2%)VauxhallNewarkNew YorkUnionElizabethJersey CityMorristownVauxhall
1
Newark5.8 mi away
11%277
2
New York, NY18.5 mi away
9%214
3
Union1.7 mi away
7%158
4
Elizabeth5.9 mi away
4%103
5
Jersey City11.5 mi away
3%81
6
Morristown11.5 mi away
2%58
7
East Orange5 mi away
2%53
8
Edison15.1 mi away
2%48
92%47
10
Woodbridge10.8 mi away
2%46
Everywhere elseother towns and states
55%1,332
The top trips

Where Vauxhall clocks in

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

How far

Half of Vauxhall commutes less than 11 miles

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

10 mi25 mi30 miNewark: 11% · 5.8 miNew York: 9% · 18.5 miUnion: 7% · 1.7 miElizabeth: 4% · 5.9 miJersey City: 3% · 11.5 miMorristown: 2% · 11.5 miEast Orange: 2% · 5 miEdison: 2% · 15.1 miParsippany-Troy Hills: 2% · 12.2 miWoodbridge: 2% · 10.8 miNewark 11%New York 9%Union 7%Elizabeth 4%Vauxhall
VauxhallTop destinations (size = commuters)
49%Under 10 mi1,172 residents
40%10–24 mi954 residents
8%25–50 mi189 residents
4%Over 50 mi97 residents

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

Time on the road

About 29 minutes each way, about the NJ average

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

A year of commuting
221 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Vauxhall29 min
New Jersey31 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
7%

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

About 1 in 10
Next door

Vauxhall and the towns next door

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

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Springfield28 min
Vauxhall29 min
Union30 min
Millburn42 min
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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