Photo: 2o46 · CC BY-SA 3.0Estell Manor has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Estell Manor report 169 jobs for 761 working residents. Jobs and income earn Estell Manor A−; getting around on foot earns it D. Home is the office for 7% of workers, where New Jersey as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Estell Manor apart
Why Estell Manor gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Estell Manor is better than 82% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Estell Manor’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Estell Manor could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The daily flow of workers through Estell Manor
On a workday 745 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 153 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Estell Manor on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Atlantic City
Where Estell Manor clocks in
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 35% of work in Estell Manor
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Estell Manor, 2014 → 2024: 185 → 169. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Estell Manor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Estell Manor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Estell Manor workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 630 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 many miles Estell Manor commutes
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Estell Manor is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Estell Manor is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 13.2% across New Jersey.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 676 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.8% of Estell Manor households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Estell Manor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Estell Manor ranks 576th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Oldmans Township NJ | 1,954 | $113K | 3.2% | 11.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 574 | Henderson GA | 1,952 | $104K | 8.7% | 1.9% | 3% | A− |
| 575 | Earlysville VA | 1,222 | $142K | 5.6% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 576 | Estell Manor NJ | 1,696 | $97K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 2% | A− |
| 577 | Stewart Manor NY | 1,925 | $155K | 5.0% | 7.9% | <1% | A− |
| 578 | Uhland TX | 1,958 | $92K | 6.4% | 3.1% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Estell Manor, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Work next door: 19% of Estell Manor’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Estell Manor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estell Manor | – | A− | D | 31 min | $97,318 |
| Corbin City | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Upper Township | 3% | A | C+ | 24 min | $111,991 |
| Maurice River Township | under 3% | C− | D− | 29 min | $76,964 |
| Weymouth Township | 4% | C | D | 33 min | $72,459 |
| Egg Harbor Township | 5% | B− | B | 23 min | $97,190 |
| Dorothy | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Hamilton Township | 7% | C+ | B+ | 27 min | $78,850 |
Same-state neighbors only. Corbin City: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Dorothy: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Hamilton Township. Darker towns draw more of Estell Manor’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 2024, 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 Estell Manor: questions
What is the median household income in Estell Manor?
$97,318 (±$11,804) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Estell Manor?
3.8%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Estell Manor?
31 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 Estell Manor work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlantic City (9%, 17 mi), Hamilton Township (7%, 9 mi), Egg Harbor Township (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Estell Manor walkable?
Estell Manor is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Estell Manor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Estell Manor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Estell Manor
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.