Photo: Camerafiend · CC BY-SA 3.0Newport draws 2,330 commuters a day, with 6.3 jobs for every working resident
2,337 jobs are based in Newport for 372 working residents. Only 2% work in Newport; the top destination outside it is Wilmington (13%, 4 miles). For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 15% across Delaware.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Newport
Newport fills up on a workday
Newport has 2,337 jobs, 6.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,900 people are in town, 3 times the 910 who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Newport residents work close to home
76% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. Only 6% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Newport makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Newport are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Newport residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 12%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 372 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Newport’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 365 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 2,900 people are in Newport on a workday afternoon, 217% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The commute from Newport, by distance
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Goods jobs make up 49% of work in Newport
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newport, 2013 → 2023: 2,426 → 2,337. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Newport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Newport
Where Newport clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
2% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Newport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newport workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 379 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Newport: questions
What is the median household income in Newport?
$60,761 (±$10,788) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newport?
10.0%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newport?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newport work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (13%, 4 mi), New Castle (6%, 4 mi), Philadelphia (2%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Newport without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newport
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.