Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Hackensack draws 423 commuters a day, with 3.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers; Minnesota has 18%. Hackensack has 437 jobs, and 125 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten stay in Hackensack for work; outside it, Pine River is the main destination (13%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Hackensack
On a workday 111 residents head out to work and 14 work right here.
About 620 people are in Hackensack on a workday afternoon, 102% 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.
Who travels to work in Hackensack, and from where
Where Hackensack clocks in
13% of workers
8% 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.
Hackensack makes things: 62% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hackensack, 2013 → 2023: 276 → 437. 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 Hackensack’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Hackensack takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hackensack workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 103 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 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.
The commute from Hackensack, by distance
About 25% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Hackensack and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hackensack workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackensack | – | — | — | 19 min | $41,250 |
| Birch Lake Township | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Hiram Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Birch Lake Township and Hiram Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hackensack’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Hackensack: questions
What is the median household income in Hackensack?
$41,250 (±$16,507) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hackensack?
25.7%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hackensack?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hackensack work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pine River (13%, 15 mi), Walker (8%, 12 mi), Powers Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hackensack without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hackensack, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hackensack
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.