Photo: Zeete · CC BY-SA 4.0Port Murray has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
0% of workers have no commute at all (New Jersey 17%). Port Murray has 20 jobs for 98 working residents. Hardly any stay in Port Murray for work; outside it, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township is the main destination (7%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Port Murray on a workday afternoon
On a workday 98 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 60 people are in Port Murray on a workday afternoon, 57% 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.
Where Port Murray goes to work
Where Port Murray clocks in
7% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
What Port Murray’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Port Murray, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 20. 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 Port Murray’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Port Murray
of Port Murray workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 53 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.
The commute from Port Murray, by distance
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.
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 Port Murray: questions
What is the poverty rate in Port Murray?
0.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Port Murray work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Parsippany-Troy Hills Township (7%, 27 mi), Mount Olive Township (5%, 11 mi), Randolph Township (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Port Murray 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 Port Murray, from the people who make the trip.
More of Port Murray
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.