Work & commute · North Hills

Work & commute in North Hills, NY

Most working residents leave North Hills for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are New York (57%), North Hempstead (16%) and Hempstead (8%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
3%
69 of 2,350 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
37 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
18%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,281 North Hills residents head out of town to work, 69 work right here, and 1,969 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in North Hills.

2,281live here, work elsewhere
69live and work here
1,969work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where North Hills goes to work

Roslyn EstatesLake SuccessNorth HillsGlen CoveYonkersNew YorkBabylonHempsteadNorth HempsteadBrookhavenIslipSmithtownHuntingtonOyster BayManhasset HillsSearingtownRoslyn HeightsManhassetNew YorkNorth HempsteadHempsteadOyster BayHuntingtonBabylonIslipGlen CoveBrookhavenSmithtownNorth Hills
1
New York15.8 mi away
57%1,347
2
North Hempstead1.9 mi away
16%387
3
Hempstead10.5 mi away
8%198
4
Oyster Bay8.9 mi away
3%80
5
Huntington17.4 mi away
2%51
6
Babylon21.1 mi away
1%33
7
Islip25.5 mi away
1%18
8
Glen Cove7.7 mi away
0%9
9
Brookhaven38 mi away
0%9
10
Smithtown27.9 mi away
0%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
9%209

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

How far

How far North Hills commutes

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

41%Under 10 mi
52%10–24 mi
3%25–50 mi
4%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

North Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.87jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in North Hills are

2,038 jobs are based in North Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs North Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in North Hills

2,038 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)3%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)89%
$1,250 a month or less8%
$1,251–$3,333 a month20%
Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs North Hills residents hold

2,350 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)5%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)75%
$1,250 a month or less8%
$1,251–$3,333 a month17%
Over $3,333 a month75%
−8%

Jobs based in North Hills, 2013 → 2023: 2,222 → 2,038. 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.

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