Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Berkeley Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
There are 5,520 jobs in Berkeley Township, and 16,666 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Berkeley Township C+; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in ten work in Berkeley Township itself; outside it, Toms River Township draws the most (15%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Berkeley Township at work: what stands out
Where Berkeley Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Berkeley Township is better than 44% of U.S. towns, #418 of 468 in New Jersey. Job access by car holds Berkeley Township’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Berkeley Township could be anywhere from C+ to B−.
Where Berkeley Township’s working residents head each day
Where Berkeley Township clocks in
15% of workers
6% 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.
How a workday changes Berkeley Township
On a workday 15,259 residents head out to work, 1,407 work right here, and 4,113 people come in from elsewhere.
About 34,000 people are in Berkeley Township on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
What Berkeley Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Berkeley Township, 2013 → 2023: 4,813 → 5,520. 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 Berkeley Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Berkeley Township, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Berkeley Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15,210 commuters (the 11% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Berkeley Township
About 19% 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 trips from Berkeley Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Berkeley Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #401 of 468 in New Jersey. Both inputs place Berkeley 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 17,173 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 20% 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 8.2% of Berkeley Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Berkeley Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 32,000 to 61,000, Berkeley Township ranks 710th of 953 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
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| 10 | Westfield NJ | 32,595 | $233K | 1.8% | 3.6% | 7% | A+ |
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| 41 | Livingston Township NJ | 32,223 | $230K | 2.3% | 4.3% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Marlboro Township NJ | 42,254 | $186K | 3.5% | 3.6% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 708 | Falmouth MA | 33,361 | $93K | 9.6% | 6.3% | 39% | C+ |
| 709 | National City CA | 57,807 | $67K | 14.6% | 6.6% | 9% | C+ |
| 710 | Berkeley Township NJ | 45,550 | $66K | 8.0% | 7.5% | 8% | C+ |
| 711 | North Lauderdale FL | 45,733 | $63K | 14.0% | 6.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 712 | Hickory NC | 45,975 | $65K | 17.1% | 3.8% | 33% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 953 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Berkeley Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
17% of Berkeley Township works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Berkeley Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Township | – | C+ | B | 34 min | $66,008 |
| Lacey Township | 2% | B+ | B | 32 min | $102,624 |
| Ocean Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 37 min | $100,524 |
| Pine Beach | under 2% | A | B+ | 23 min | $142,920 |
| Toms River Township | 15% | A− | B | 30 min | $99,547 |
| Beachwood | under 2% | A | B | 31 min | $106,858 |
| Seaside Park | under 2% | B | A | 31 min | $84,375 |
| South Toms River | under 2% | B | B | 28 min | $103,503 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Toms River Township. Darker towns draw more of Berkeley 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 Berkeley Township: questions
What is the median household income in Berkeley Township?
$66,008 (±$3,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Berkeley Township?
8.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Berkeley Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Berkeley Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (15%, 6 mi), Lakewood Township (6%, 11 mi), Brick Township (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Berkeley Township walkable?
Berkeley Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Berkeley Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Berkeley Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Berkeley 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.