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Work & commute in Nanuet · Balanced

94% of Nanuet’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Nanuet for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New York (29%), Clarkstown (16%) and Ramapo (9%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Work in town
6%
535 of 8,730 working residents
Typical commute
15 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
31 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
10%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
9,588
Balanced

What kind of work town is Nanuet?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

29% 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.

Montvale: 88 residents work here (1%)Spring ValleyChestnut RidgeWhite Plains: 111 residents work here (1%)Yonkers: 145 residents work here (2%)New York: 2,536 residents work here (29%)Greenburgh: 167 residents work here (2%)Mount Pleasant: 132 residents work here (2%)HempsteadHaverstraw: 119 residents work here (1%)Stony PointBrookhavenClarkstown: 1,406 residents work here (16%)Orangetown: 715 residents work here (8%)Ramapo: 813 residents work here (9%)HillcrestBardoniaWest NyackNanuetPearl RiverNew CityNew YorkClarkstownRamapoOrangetownGreenburghYonkersNanuet
1
New York30.2 mi away
29%2,536
2
Clarkstown3.7 mi away
16%1,406
3
Ramapo5.6 mi away
9%813
4
Orangetown4.6 mi away
8%715
5
Greenburgh10.1 mi away
2%167
6
Yonkers12.9 mi away
2%145
7
Mount Pleasant10.5 mi away
2%132
8
Haverstraw7.5 mi away
1%119
9
White Plains14.7 mi away
1%111
10
Montvale, NJ3.3 mi away
1%88
Everywhere elseother towns and states
29%2,498
The top trips

Where Nanuet clocks in

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

Next door

33% of Nanuet works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Clarkstown (16%). Darker towns draw more of Nanuet’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,195 residents head out to work, 535 work right here, and 9,053 people come in from elsewhere.

8,195live here, work elsewhere
535live and work here
9,053work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night20,000
Workday21,000
20,000live here− 8,200head out to work+ 9,100come in to work= 21,000on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
1.10jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).

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 Nanuet commutes less than 15 miles

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

10 mi25 mi35 miNew York: 29% · 30.2 miClarkstown: 16% · 3.7 miRamapo: 9% · 5.6 miOrangetown: 8% · 4.6 miGreenburgh: 2% · 10.1 miYonkers: 2% · 12.9 miMount Pleasant: 2% · 10.5 miHaverstraw: 1% · 7.5 miWhite Plains: 1% · 14.7 miMontvale: 1% · 3.3 miNew York 29%Clarkstown 16%Ramapo 9%Orangetown 8%Greenburgh 2%Nanuet
NanuetTop destinations (size = commuters)
41%Under 10 mi3,598 residents
34%10–24 mi2,923 residents
20%25–50 mi1,751 residents
5%Over 50 mi449 residents

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

The jobs

What the 9,588 jobs in Nanuet are

9,588 jobs are based in Nanuet. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Nanuet’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in NanuetJobs Nanuet residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms16%10%
Trade, transport & utilities30%17%
Services: health, schools, offices54%73%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less16%11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%20%
Over $3,333 a month55%68%

Who does it

29 or younger26%18%
30 to 5446%52%
55 and older28%29%
−6%

Jobs based in Nanuet, 2013 → 2023: 10,154 → 9,588. 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.

Time on the road

About 31 minutes each way, about the NY average

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

A year of commuting
236 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Nanuet31 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
10%

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

About 1 in 10
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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