Photo: Nathaniel R. Ewan, HABS Photographer · Public domainWith 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Alloway Township works elsewhere
There are 647 jobs in Alloway Township, and 1,625 of its residents work somewhere. Alloway Township grades A for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Alloway Township is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Alloway Township stands out on work
How Alloway Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Alloway Township is better than 88% of U.S. towns, #150 of 468 in New Jersey. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Alloway Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
What Alloway Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alloway Township, 2013 → 2023: 628 → 647. 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 Alloway Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Alloway Township by day
On a workday 1,534 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 556 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Alloway Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
5% of working residents work in Salem
Where Alloway Township clocks in
5% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
The daily trip from Alloway Township: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alloway Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,588 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across New Jersey: 75% drive alone, 10% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Alloway Township’s workers travel
About 15% 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.
Most of Alloway Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Alloway Township is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #432 of 468 in New Jersey. Both inputs place Alloway Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,700 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 1% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 40% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.8% of Alloway Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Alloway Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Alloway Township next to U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500: 489th of 4,593 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Harding Township NJ | 3,949 | $222K | 3.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Haworth NJ | 3,422 | $237K | 3.7% | 2.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 487 | Bradley Beach NJ | 4,163 | $97K | 5.8% | 2.7% | 5% | A |
| 488 | West Lake Hills TX | 3,229 | $198K | 9.5% | 3.4% | 4% | A |
| 489 | Alloway Township NJ | 3,338 | $105K | 1.5% | 2.9% | 6% | A |
| 490 | Penn Township PA | 2,307 | $97K | 4.2% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| 491 | Rose Hills CA | 2,314 | $123K | 7.7% | 3.8% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Alloway Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Work in the towns next to Alloway Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Alloway Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alloway Township | – | A | C+ | 31 min | $105,156 |
| Mannington Township | under 2% | A | B+ | 23 min | $109,271 |
| Quinton Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 30 min | $86,563 |
| Stow Creek Township | under 2% | B+ | B− | 31 min | $105,139 |
| Hopewell Township | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 22 min | $100,202 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Alloway Township’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 Alloway Township: questions
What is the median household income in Alloway Township?
$105,156 (±$11,702) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alloway Township?
1.5%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alloway Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alloway Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (5%, 8 mi), Philadelphia (4%, 33 mi), Vineland (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Alloway Township walkable?
Alloway Township is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Alloway Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alloway Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alloway Township
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.