Work & commute · Great Neck

Work & commute in Great Neck, NY

Most working residents leave Great Neck for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New York (53%), North Hempstead (23%) and Hempstead (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

246 of 4,311 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

39 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,065 Great Neck residents head out of town to work, 246 work right here, and 1,463 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Great Neck.

4,065live here, work elsewhere

246live and work here

1,463work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Great Neck goes to work

New York14.5 mi away

53%2,299

North Hempstead2.9 mi away

23%998

Hempstead13.3 mi away

5%229

Oyster Bay11.6 mi away

3%148

Huntington19.5 mi away

1%49

Babylon24.5 mi away

1%45

Islip28.7 mi away

1%36

Jersey City, NJ18.5 mi away

1%24

White Plains15.3 mi away

1%22

Brookhaven40.6 mi away

0%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

10%440

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

How far

How far Great Neck commutes

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

42%

50%

42%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Great Neck is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Great Neck are

1,709 jobs are based in Great Neck. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Great Neck’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Great Neck

1,709 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Great Neck residents hold

4,311 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−5%

Jobs based in Great Neck, 2013 → 2023: 1,796 → 1,709. 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.