96% of Blue Point’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Blue Point for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Brookhaven (26%), Islip (25%) and New York (18%). Half commute less than 13 miles.
What kind of work town is Blue Point?
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26% of working residents work in Brookhaven
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Blue Point clocks in
26% of workers
25% of workers
18% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
51% of Blue Point works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Brookhaven (26%). Darker towns draw more of Blue Point’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What the 974 jobs in Blue Point are
974 jobs are based in Blue Point. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blue Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Point, 2013 → 2023: 703 → 974. 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 41 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blue Point workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Blue Point quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,476 residents head out to work, 90 work right here, and 884 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Blue Point on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
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.
Half of Blue Point commutes less than 13 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 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 Blue Point
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Point, from the people who make the trip.
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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.