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 4.0Households in Lavallette have higher incomes than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Commuters spend 37 minutes getting to work on average; the New Jersey average is 31, the U.S. 26. Below the poverty line: 4.3% of residents, next to 9.7% across New Jersey. For jobs and income Lavallette is better than 93% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Lavallette: the gist
The better-paid jobs are outside Lavallette
68% of Lavallette residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Lavallette pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 90% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Lavallette’s workforce skews older
41% of Lavallette’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
Lavallette workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 31 across New Jersey. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (30 to 33 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 573 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Lavallette’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income is its strongest input ($133,056, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Lavallette’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, Lavallette could be anywhere from A− to A+.
What Lavallette’s employers do
541 jobs are based in Lavallette.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lavallette, 2013 → 2023: 288 → 541. 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 Lavallette’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Lavallette: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lavallette workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 658 commuters (the 18% 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 daily commute in and out of Lavallette
On a workday 516 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 484 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 (0.94 per resident).
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 Lavallette clocks in
12% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Lavallette’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Lavallette
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 804 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). 5.1% of Lavallette households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Lavallette’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lavallette is 240th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Oldmans Township NJ | 1,954 | $113K | 3.2% | 11.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 238 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| 239 | Hidden Hills CA | 1,675 | $250K | 9.5% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| 240 | Lavallette NJ | 1,869 | $133K | 4.3% | 2.6% | 10% | A |
| 241 | Honey Brook PA | 1,891 | $94K | 2.5% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| 242 | Belvedere CA | 2,066 | $250K | 5.9% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Lavallette, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Next door is work for 12% of Lavallette
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lavallette workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavallette | – | A | A− | 37 min | $133,056 |
| Toms River Township | 12% | A− | B | 30 min | $99,547 |
| Dover Beaches South | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Dover Beaches North | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Dover Beaches South and Dover Beaches North: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Toms River Township. Darker towns draw more of Lavallette’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 Lavallette: questions
What is the median household income in Lavallette?
$133,056 (±$25,582) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lavallette?
4.3%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lavallette?
37 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lavallette work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (12%, 5 mi), Lakewood Township (3%, 10 mi), Brick Township (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lavallette walkable?
Lavallette is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lavallette without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lavallette, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lavallette
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.