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 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Fortescue
Only 1% stay in Fortescue for work; outside it, Vineland is the main destination (17%, 18 miles). Commuters spend 57 minutes getting to work on average; New Jersey averages 31, the U.S. 26. There are 67 jobs in Fortescue, and 77 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Fortescue
On a workday 76 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Fortescue’s residents
Where Fortescue clocks in
17% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 52% of jobs based in Fortescue
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fortescue, 2014 → 2024: 69 → 67. 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 Fortescue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Fortescue’s commute takes about 57 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 18.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fortescue workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 31 commuters (the 21% 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.
Fortescue’s commute, mile by mile
About 24% 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.
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 Fortescue: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fortescue?
0.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fortescue?
57 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fortescue work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vineland (17%, 18 mi), Bridgeton (6%, 14 mi), Downe Township (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Fortescue without a car?
0% 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 Fortescue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fortescue
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.