Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Lacey Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 79% of U.S. towns. Lacey Township has 6,059 jobs; 13,283 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Lacey Township is better than 71% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lacey Township: the figures worth knowing
How Lacey Township earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Lacey Township’s grade up (5.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lacey Township could be anywhere from B to A.
What Lacey Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lacey Township, 2013 → 2023: 5,248 → 6,059. 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 Lacey Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Lacey Township
On a workday 11,632 residents head out to work, 1,651 work right here, and 4,408 people come in from elsewhere.
About 23,000 people are in Lacey Township on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
12% of working residents work in Toms River Township
Where Lacey Township clocks in
12% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 32 minutes to work from Lacey Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lacey Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,195 commuters (the 15% 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.
Half of Lacey Township commutes less than 23 miles
About 17% 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 Lacey Township commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of 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 14,318 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 29% 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 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% 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). 2.9% of Lacey Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Lacey Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lacey Township is 659th among 1,415 U.S. towns of 21,000 to 41,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
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| 19 | Scotch Plains Township NJ | 25,437 | $184K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Westfield NJ | 32,595 | $233K | 1.8% | 3.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Cranford Township NJ | 24,725 | $156K | 2.5% | 3.6% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 657 | Caseyville Township IL | 34,825 | $87K | 7.4% | 5.0% | 12% | B+ |
| 658 | Schererville IN | 29,825 | $89K | 7.7% | 5.1% | 8% | B+ |
| 659 | Lacey Township NJ | 30,297 | $103K | 5.1% | 5.5% | 12% | B+ |
| 660 | University Place WA | 35,479 | $99K | 8.2% | 5.1% | 6% | B+ |
| 661 | Richfield MN | 36,593 | $85K | 8.2% | 5.3% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,415 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Lacey Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
The towns around Lacey Township
The biggest share goes to Berkeley Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lacey Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacey Township | – | B+ | B | 32 min | $102,624 |
| Berkeley Township | 4% | C+ | B | 34 min | $66,008 |
| Ocean Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 37 min | $100,524 |
| Manchester Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 33 min | $56,885 |
| Barnegat Township | under 2% | B− | B− | 28 min | $91,540 |
| Woodland Township | under 2% | B | D | 43 min | $138,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lacey 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 Lacey Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lacey Township?
$102,624 (±$11,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lacey Township?
5.1%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lacey Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lacey Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (12%, 10 mi), Lakewood Township (5%, 15 mi), Berkeley Township (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lacey Township walkable?
Lacey Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lacey Township without a car?
1% 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 Lacey Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lacey 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.