Most of Laurel Heights commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (New Jersey 17%). 48 jobs are based in Laurel Heights for 172 working residents. Hardly any stay in Laurel Heights for work; outside it, Vineland is the main destination (16%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Laurel Heights on a workday afternoon
On a workday 172 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Laurel Heights on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The towns that employ Laurel Heights’ residents
Where Laurel Heights clocks in
16% of workers
13% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Laurel Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Laurel Heights, 2013 → 2023: 139 → 48. 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 Laurel Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Laurel Heights
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Laurel Heights workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 151 commuters (the 0% 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 Laurel Heights commutes less than 10 miles
About 15% 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.
Laurel Heights and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Laurel Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel Heights | – | — | — | 21 min | $82,643 |
| Sunset Lake | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sunset Lake: 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 Laurel Heights’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 Laurel Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Laurel Heights?
$82,643 (±$46,752) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Laurel Heights?
16.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Laurel Heights?
21 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Laurel Heights work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vineland (16%, 12 mi), Upper Deerfield Township (13%, 3 mi), Bridgeton (13%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Laurel Heights 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 Laurel Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Laurel Heights
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.