With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Delaware Park works elsewhere
42 jobs are based in Delaware Park for 318 working residents. Hardly any work in Delaware Park; the top destination outside it is Phillipsburg (7%, 1 miles). For 6% of workers, the job is at home; New Jersey has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Delaware Park, in brief
The workday shuffle in and out of Delaware Park
On a workday 318 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 98 people are in Delaware Park on a workday afternoon, 74% 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 Delaware Park: the destinations
Where Delaware Park clocks in
7% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Delaware Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delaware Park, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 42. 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 Delaware Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Delaware Park spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delaware Park workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 241 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Delaware Park
About 21% 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 Delaware Park: questions
What is the median household income in Delaware Park?
$121,552 (±$29,266) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delaware Park?
0.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delaware Park?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delaware Park work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phillipsburg (7%, 1 mi), Lopatcong Township (3%, 2 mi), New York City (3%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Delaware Park 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 Delaware Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delaware Park
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.