With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Arrowhead Lake works elsewhere
Arrowhead Lake has 2 jobs, against 57 working residents. Hardly any work in Arrowhead Lake; the top destination outside it is Bridgeton (9%, 6 miles). Home is the office for 7% of workers, where New Jersey as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Arrowhead Lake
On a workday 57 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 46 people are in Arrowhead Lake on a workday afternoon, 54% 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.
Commuting out of Arrowhead Lake: the destinations
Where Arrowhead Lake clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
A place that makes things: 100% of Arrowhead Lake’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Arrowhead Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Arrowhead Lake: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arrowhead Lake workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 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 Arrowhead Lake’s workers travel
About 18% 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 Arrowhead Lake: questions
What is the poverty rate in Arrowhead Lake?
19.8%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arrowhead Lake?
19 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 Arrowhead Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgeton (9%, 6 mi), Vineland (9%, 17 mi), Hopewell Township (9%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Arrowhead Lake 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 Arrowhead Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arrowhead Lake
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.