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Work & commute in Harbor Hills · A commuter town

100% of Harbor Hills’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Harbor Hills for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are New York (56%), North Hempstead (22%) and Hempstead (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 198 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
43 min
More than NY (33 min)
Work from home
5%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
45
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Harbor Hills?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

56% of working residents work in New York

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Cottonwood: 1 residents work here (1%)Burbank: 1 residents work here (1%)Englewood Cliffs: 1 residents work here (1%)Fort LeeSaddle RockGreat Neck EstatesNew York: 110 residents work here (56%)LakewoodRyeMamaroneck: 3 residents work here (2%)Babylon: 2 residents work here (1%)Hempstead: 11 residents work here (6%)North Hempstead: 43 residents work here (22%)SmithtownHuntington: 3 residents work here (2%)Oyster Bay: 5 residents work here (3%)Saddle Rock EstatesHarbor HillsNew YorkNorth HempsteadHempsteadOyster BayMamaroneckHuntingtonHarbor Hills
1
New York13.2 mi away
56%110
2
North Hempstead3.8 mi away
22%43
3
Hempstead13 mi away
6%11
4
Oyster Bay12.5 mi away
3%5
5
Mamaroneck9.2 mi away
2%3
6
Huntington20.5 mi away
2%3
7
Babylon24.8 mi away
1%2
8
Cottonwood, AZ2112.2 mi away
1%1
9
Burbank, CA2459.1 mi away
1%1
101%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
9%18
The top trips

Where Harbor Hills clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 43 minutes each way, longer than most of New York

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
329 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.7 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Harbor Hills43 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
5%

of Harbor Hills workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Harbor Hills quiets down on a workday

On a workday 198 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.

198live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
45work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night460
Workday310
460live here− 200head out to work+ 45come in to work= 310on a workday

About 310 people are in Harbor Hills on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.23jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.23 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.

How far

Half of Harbor Hills commutes less than 12 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miNew York: 56% · 13.2 miNorth Hempstead: 22% · 3.8 miHempstead: 6% · 13 miOyster Bay: 3% · 12.5 miMamaroneck: 2% · 9.2 miHuntington: 2% · 20.5 miBabylon: 1% · 24.8 miCottonwood: 1% · 2112.2 miBurbank: 1% · 2459.1 miEnglewood Cliffs: 1% · 12.2 miNew York 56%North Hempstead 22%Hempstead 6%Oyster Bay 3%Mamaroneck 2%Harbor Hills
Harbor HillsTop destinations (size = commuters)
44%Under 10 mi87 residents
50%10–24 mi99 residents
3%25–50 mi6 residents
3%Over 50 mi5 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in Harbor HillsJobs Harbor Hills residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms2%7%
Trade, transport & utilities0%18%
Services: health, schools, offices98%75%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less40%7%
$1,251–$3,333 a month27%17%
Over $3,333 a month33%76%

Who does it

29 or younger18%20%
30 to 5442%47%
55 and older40%32%
+29%

Jobs based in Harbor Hills, 2013 → 2023: 35 → 45. 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.

Next door

Harbor Hills and the towns next door

Darker towns draw more of Harbor Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Saddle Rock Estates26 min
Great Neck Estates34 min
Saddle Rock38 min
Harbor Hills43 min
How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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