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 4.0Most of Ocean Gate commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
8% of workers have no commute at all; New Jersey has 17%. There are 216 jobs in Ocean Gate, against 805 working residents. Ocean Gate grades B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Ocean Gate
Where Ocean Gate’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Ocean Gate is better than 67% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ocean Gate’s grade up (6.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($69,397, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Ocean Gate’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, Ocean Gate could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Who works in Ocean Gate, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 778 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 189 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Ocean Gate on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
19% of working residents work in Toms River Township
Where Ocean Gate clocks in
19% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Ocean Gate
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ocean Gate, 2013 → 2023: 107 → 216. 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 Ocean Gate’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Ocean Gate: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ocean Gate workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 584 commuters (the 8% 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.
How many miles Ocean Gate commutes
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.
Few in Ocean Gate walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ocean Gate is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% 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 635 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). 10.1% of Ocean Gate households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ocean Gate’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ocean Gate next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700: 1,320th of 5,509 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Oldmans Township NJ | 1,954 | $113K | 3.2% | 11.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,318 | Key Vista FL | 1,418 | $75K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,319 | Fair Grove MO | 1,645 | $75K | 5.0% | 4.9% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,320 | Ocean Gate NJ | 2,005 | $69K | 6.0% | 3.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,321 | Cressona PA | 1,622 | $74K | 5.1% | 4.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,322 | Leslie Township MI | 2,308 | $93K | 7.3% | 4.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Ocean Gate, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
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 Ocean Gate: questions
What is the median household income in Ocean Gate?
$69,397 (±$18,552) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ocean Gate?
6.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ocean Gate?
28 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ocean Gate work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (19%, 5 mi), Berkeley Township (6%, 3 mi), Lakewood Township (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ocean Gate walkable?
Ocean Gate is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ocean Gate without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ocean Gate, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ocean Gate
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.