Work & commute · Great Neck Estates

Work & commute in Great Neck Estates, NY

Most working residents leave Great Neck Estates for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are New York (53%), North Hempstead (22%) and Hempstead (7%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 1,126 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,101 Great Neck Estates residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 534 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Great Neck Estates.

1,101live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

534work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Great Neck Estates goes to work

New York13.5 mi away

53%600

North Hempstead3.4 mi away

22%245

Hempstead12.6 mi away

7%77

Oyster Bay12.1 mi away

3%33

Huntington20.2 mi away

1%13

Babylon24.4 mi away

1%11

Islip28.8 mi away

1%11

Smithtown30.8 mi away

1%7

Greenburgh17.6 mi away

1%6

White Plains16.4 mi away

0%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

10%118

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

How far

How far Great Neck Estates commutes

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

41%

51%

41%Under 10 mi

51%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Great Neck Estates is a commuter town

0.50jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Great Neck Estates are

559 jobs are based in Great Neck Estates. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Great Neck Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Great Neck Estates

559 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Great Neck Estates residents hold

1,126 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month72%

−8%

Jobs based in Great Neck Estates, 2013 → 2023: 608 → 559. 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.