Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY 3.0Deans has 3.1 jobs for every working resident: 2,349 people commute in to work
Deans has 2,354 jobs; 756 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Deans; the top destination outside it is New York City (9%, 35 miles). 36% of workers have no commute at all, next to 17% for New Jersey as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Deans apart on work
Deans fills up on a workday
Deans has 2,354 jobs, 3.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,800 people are in town, more than double the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Deans have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Deans went from 1,143 in 2013 to 2,354 in 2023, +106%. The jobs ↓
Deans’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Deans is New York City, NY, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (71) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 756 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How a workday changes Deans
On a workday 751 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Deans on a workday afternoon, 138% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 40% of the jobs in Deans
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deans, 2013 → 2023: 1,143 → 2,354. 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 Deans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Deans, by distance
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.
Who travels to work in Deans, and from where
Where Deans clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
About 44 minutes to work from Deans
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deans workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 431 commuters (the 37% 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.
Around Deans: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to North Brunswick Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Deans workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deans | – | — | — | 44 min | $248,875 |
| North Brunswick Township | 3% | A− | A | 29 min | $120,764 |
| Monmouth Junction | under 3% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Dayton | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Monmouth Junction and Dayton: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Deans’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 Deans: questions
What is the median household income in Deans?
$248,875 (±$37,698) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deans?
1.9%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deans?
44 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deans work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (9%, 35 mi), South Brunswick Township (9%, 1 mi), Edison Township (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Deans without a car?
8% 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 Deans, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deans
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.