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-SA 3.0Downe Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For 8% of workers, the job is at home, next to 17% for New Jersey as a whole. 162 jobs are based in Downe Township, and 586 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Downe Township are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Downe Township, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Downe Township
On income, poverty and job access, Downe Township is better than 27% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Downe Township’s grade.
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Downe Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Downe Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Downe Township by day and by night
On a workday 560 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Downe Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
16% of working residents work in Vineland
Where Downe Township clocks in
16% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
38% of the jobs in Downe Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Downe Township, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 162. 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 Downe Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Downe Township: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Downe Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 532 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.
The commute from Downe Township, by distance
About 23% 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 Downe Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Downe Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Downe 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 575 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 20% 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). 3.4% of Downe Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Downe Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,554th of 5,877: where Downe Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Allentown NJ | 1,741 | $121K | 4.4% | 3.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,552 | Chassell Township MI | 1,893 | $76K | 10.0% | 1.5% | 5% | C |
| 3,553 | Bath NH | 1,112 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.9% | 4% | C |
| 3,554 | Downe Township NJ | 1,416 | $68K | 12.4% | 6.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,555 | McGill NV | 1,050 | $57K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 3% | C |
| 3,556 | Cienegas Terrace TX | 1,868 | $60K | 9.5% | 13.9% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Downe Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Work next door: 13% of Downe Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Millville (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Downe Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downe Township | – | C | D− | 32 min | $67,708 |
| Commercial Township | 2% | C− | D | 30 min | $55,733 |
| Lawrence Township | 2% | B− | C | 28 min | $85,515 |
| Millville | 9% | C+ | A | 25 min | $70,275 |
| Port Norris | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Port Norris: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Downe 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 Downe Township: questions
What is the median household income in Downe Township?
$67,708 (±$16,472) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Downe Township?
12.4%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Downe Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Downe Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vineland (16%, 15 mi), Millville (9%, 9 mi), Bridgeton (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Downe Township walkable?
Downe Township is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Downe Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Downe Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Downe 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.