Work & commute · Flower Hill

Work & commute in Flower Hill, NY

Most working residents leave Flower Hill for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are New York (53%), North Hempstead (17%) and Hempstead (8%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

52 of 1,814 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

44 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,762 Flower Hill residents head out of town to work, 52 work right here, and 4,604 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Flower Hill.

1,762live here, work elsewhere

52live and work here

4,604work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Flower Hill goes to work

New York17 mi away

53%961

North Hempstead0.3 mi away

17%313

Hempstead12.5 mi away

8%140

Oyster Bay8.6 mi away

6%109

Huntington16.5 mi away

3%46

Islip25.8 mi away

1%20

Babylon22 mi away

1%18

Brookhaven37.6 mi away

1%12

Harrison15.1 mi away

1%11

Smithtown27.1 mi away

0%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

10%175

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

How far

How far Flower Hill commutes

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

36%

56%

36%Under 10 mi

56%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Flower Hill is a job hub

2.57jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Flower Hill are

4,656 jobs are based in Flower Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Flower Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Flower Hill

4,656 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)93%

$1,250 a month or less3%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month84%

Jobs Flower Hill residents hold

1,814 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+39%

Jobs based in Flower Hill, 2013 → 2023: 3,349 → 4,656. 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.