Work & commute · New Hyde Park

Work & commute in New Hyde Park, NY

Most working residents leave New Hyde Park for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are New York (48%), North Hempstead (18%) and Hempstead (14%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

156 of 4,746 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

38 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,590 New Hyde Park residents head out of town to work, 156 work right here, and 4,482 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Hyde Park.

4,590live here, work elsewhere

156live and work here

4,482work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where New Hyde Park goes to work

New York14.1 mi away

48%2,276

North Hempstead4.9 mi away

18%875

Hempstead7.9 mi away

14%662

Oyster Bay10.3 mi away

5%220

Babylon20.3 mi away

2%103

Huntington19.3 mi away

2%85

Islip25.6 mi away

1%64

Brookhaven38.9 mi away

1%28

Smithtown29.5 mi away

1%24

Yonkers17.5 mi away

0%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

8%387

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

How far

How far New Hyde Park commutes

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

49%

44%

49%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

New Hyde Park is balanced between jobs and homes

0.98jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in New Hyde Park are

4,638 jobs are based in New Hyde Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Hyde Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in New Hyde Park

4,638 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs New Hyde Park residents hold

4,746 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+5%

Jobs based in New Hyde Park, 2013 → 2023: 4,399 → 4,638. 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.