Photo: Zeete · CC BY-SA 4.0Milford has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
207 jobs are based in Milford, against 536 working residents. The two grades for Milford are B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 1% work in Milford; the top destination outside it is Raritan Township (7%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Milford apart on work
Milford’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Milford is better than 60% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Milford’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($71,806, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Milford’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Milford could be anywhere from C to A.
The kinds of work in Milford
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milford, 2014 → 2024: 325 → 207. 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 Milford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Milford by day
On a workday 528 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Milford on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Out of Milford to work: where people go
Where Milford clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Milford
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milford workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 22% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Milford
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Milford, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milford is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Milford near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 558 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). 4.8% of Milford households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milford’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Milford is 1,196th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Chester NJ | 1,689 | $172K | 6.4% | 2.8% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 149 | Port Republic NJ | 1,125 | $123K | 1.3% | 9.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Lebanon NJ | 1,676 | $110K | 4.7% | 2.5% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,194 | Middlebury Township MI | 1,528 | $77K | 7.7% | 6.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,195 | South Bristol NY | 1,630 | $97K | 6.5% | 2.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,196 | Milford NJ | 1,224 | $72K | 8.8% | 5.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,197 | Evans City PA | 1,670 | $74K | 4.1% | 7.2% | 3% | B |
| 1,198 | Spring Green WI | 1,567 | $87K | 6.8% | 3.1% | 18% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Milford, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
How Milford compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Alexandria Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Milford workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milford | – | B | B+ | 33 min | $71,806 |
| Holland Township | under 2% | A− | D | 32 min | $136,875 |
| Alexandria Township | 4% | B | D | 44 min | $160,354 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Milford’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 Milford: questions
What is the median household income in Milford?
$71,806 (±$19,289) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milford?
8.8%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milford?
33 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milford work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Raritan Township (7%, 10 mi), Alexandria Township (4%, 4 mi), New York City (3%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Milford walkable?
Milford is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milford without a car?
0% 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 Milford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milford
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.