Work & commute · Lake Success

Work & commute in Lake Success, NY

Most working residents leave Lake Success for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are New York (61%), North Hempstead (14%) and Hempstead (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

43 of 1,295 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,252 Lake Success residents head out of town to work, 43 work right here, and 7,455 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Success.

1,252live here, work elsewhere

43live and work here

7,455work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Success goes to work

New York13.8 mi away

61%795

North Hempstead3.2 mi away

14%187

Hempstead10.4 mi away

6%75

Oyster Bay10.8 mi away

4%49

Huntington19.4 mi away

2%31

Islip27.1 mi away

1%12

Englewood Cliffs, NJ14.8 mi away

1%10

Jersey City, NJ18.9 mi away

1%9

Rye12.7 mi away

0%6

White Plains18.1 mi away

0%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

9%115

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

How far

How far Lake Success commutes

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

44%

50%

44%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Success is a job hub

5.79jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Success are

7,498 jobs are based in Lake Success. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Success’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Success

7,498 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month82%

Jobs Lake Success residents hold

1,295 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 month18%

Over $3,333 a month73%

−3%

Jobs based in Lake Success, 2013 → 2023: 7,740 → 7,498. 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.