Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Mountain Lakes has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
5% of workers have no commute at all; New Hampshire has 17%. Employers in Mountain Lakes report 12 jobs for 227 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mountain Lakes for work; outside it, Haverhill is the main destination (24%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mountain Lakes: the figures worth knowing
Mountain Lakes quiets down on a workday
On a workday 227 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Mountain Lakes on a workday afternoon, 61% fewer 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.
Where Mountain Lakes goes to work
Where Mountain Lakes clocks in
24% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Mountain Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mountain Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 12. 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 Mountain Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Mountain Lakes spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mountain Lakes workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 160 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across New Hampshire: 87% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Mountain Lakes works
About 20% 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.
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 Mountain Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Mountain Lakes?
$35,603 (±$12,250) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mountain Lakes?
16.4%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mountain Lakes?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mountain Lakes work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Haverhill (24%, 4 mi), Lisbon (9%, 10 mi), Lebanon (7%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mountain Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mountain Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mountain Lakes
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.