Work & commute · Brightwaters

Work & commute in Brightwaters, NY

Most working residents leave Brightwaters for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Islip (29%), New York (21%) and Babylon (8%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

44 of 1,376 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,332 Brightwaters residents head out of town to work, 44 work right here, and 661 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brightwaters.

1,332live here, work elsewhere

44live and work here

661work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brightwaters goes to work

Islip3.4 mi away

29%397

New York35.7 mi away

21%286

Babylon6 mi away

8%114

Huntington13.1 mi away

8%105

Hempstead19.1 mi away

7%93

Brookhaven18.5 mi away

6%81

Oyster Bay14.3 mi away

6%78

North Hempstead22.6 mi away

5%63

Smithtown14.6 mi away

3%37

Southampton43.4 mi away

0%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

8%116

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

How far

How far Brightwaters commutes

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

43%

27%

24%

43%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brightwaters is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brightwaters are

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

Jobs based in Brightwaters

705 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Brightwaters residents hold

1,376 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month73%

+3%

Jobs based in Brightwaters, 2013 → 2023: 682 → 705. 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.