Work & commute · New Garden

Work & commute in New Garden, PA

Most working residents leave New Garden for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Kennett (5%), Philadelphia (5%) and Wilmington (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

586 of 5,247 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 4,661 New Garden residents head out of town to work, 586 work right here, and 4,726 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Garden.

4,661live here, work elsewhere

586live and work here

4,726work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where New Garden goes to work

New Garden (in town)right here

11%586

Kennett4.3 mi away

5%264

Philadelphia35.7 mi away

5%252

Wilmington, DE13.1 mi away

5%247

Kennett Square3.2 mi away

4%187

East Marlborough4.7 mi away

2%116

West Goshen14 mi away

2%98

Hockessin, DE4.7 mi away

2%85

East Whiteland19.4 mi away

1%66

Penn6.3 mi away

1%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%3,281

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

How far

How far New Garden commutes

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

37%

30%

21%

12%

37%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

New Garden is balanced between jobs and homes

1.01jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in New Garden are

5,312 jobs are based in New Garden. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in New Garden

5,312 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs New Garden residents hold

5,247 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+9%

Jobs based in New Garden, 2013 → 2023: 4,868 → 5,312. 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.