Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Morris Township’s household incomes are among the highest in the country
Poverty touches 4.6% of residents, against 9.7% across New Jersey. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Jobs and income earn Morris Township A; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Morris Township in brief
Morris Township trades workers with the towns around it
Morris Township has about as many jobs (10,840) as working residents (10,897), but they are mostly different people: 10,453 residents leave for work each day while 10,396 people come in. Only 4% of the jobs in Morris Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Morris Township draws workers from far and wide
The 10,840 jobs in Morris Township are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 16%; the other 80% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Most jobs here, and most residents’ jobs, pay over $40,000
79% of Morris Township’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data, and so do 82% of the jobs based in Morris Township. The jobs ↓
Morris Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Morris Township is New York City, NY, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (1,173) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Morris Township
27% of Morris Township workers work from home, against 17% across New Jersey. 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.
Jobs & income in Morris Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Morris Township is better than 93% of U.S. towns, #83 of 468 in New Jersey. Household income holds Morris Township’s grade up ($204,951, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Morris Township could be anywhere from A− to A+.
How many people are in Morris Township by day
On a workday 10,453 residents head out to work, 444 work right here, and 10,396 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 (0.99 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.
11% of working residents work in New York City
Where Morris Township clocks in
11% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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.
Most jobs in Morris Township are in services
10,840 jobs are based in Morris Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morris Township, 2013 → 2023: 12,592 → 10,840. 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 Morris Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Morris Township’s workers travel
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.
About 29 minutes each way, about the NJ average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morris Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,699 commuters (the 27% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Morris Township
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morris Township is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns, #252 of 468 in New Jersey. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 13.2% across New Jersey, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 11,973 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, 10% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 66% 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). 3.3% of Morris Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Morris Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,577 U.S. towns of 17,000 to 32,000, Morris Township comes 169th on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
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| 22 | Scotch Plains Township NJ | 25,437 | $184K | 2.5% | 3.2% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Cranford Township NJ | 24,725 | $156K | 2.5% | 3.6% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Ridgewood NJ | 26,527 | $208K | 4.2% | 3.4% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Wilton CT | 19,435 | $242K | 2.4% | 4.4% | 13% | A |
| 168 | Cuba Township IL | 17,247 | $154K | 4.7% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| 169 | Morris Township NJ | 23,730 | $205K | 4.6% | 4.4% | 4% | A |
| 170 | Lemont IL | 18,513 | $123K | 3.1% | 4.5% | 10% | A |
| 171 | Twinsburg OH | 18,939 | $99K | 4.1% | 2.6% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,577 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Morris Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
The towns around Morris Township
The biggest share goes to Parsippany-Troy Hills Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Morris Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Township | – | A | A | 29 min | $204,951 |
| Hanover Township | 3% | A+ | B+ | 24 min | $156,956 |
| Harding Township | under 2% | A+ | A− | 32 min | $222,429 |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | 5% | A | A | 28 min | $112,327 |
| Cedar Knolls | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Morris Plains | under 2% | A | A | 29 min | $154,923 |
| Whippany | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Denville Township | under 2% | A | A | 30 min | $160,817 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cedar Knolls and Whippany: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Morris 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 Morris Township: questions
What is the median household income in Morris Township?
$204,951 (±$15,341) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morris Township?
4.6%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morris Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morris Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (11%, 30 mi), Morristown (11%, 1 mi), Parsippany-Troy Hills Township (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morris Township walkable?
Morris Township is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morris Township without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 10% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morris Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morris 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.