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 4.0Spring Lake Heights has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Household incomes here are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns. Spring Lake Heights has 1,081 jobs; 2,179 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Spring Lake Heights A−; getting around on foot earns it A+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Spring Lake Heights: the gist
No single place dominates Spring Lake Heights’ commute
The biggest draw, Wall Township, gets only 7% of working residents, and 63% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Spring Lake Heights residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Spring Lake Heights
70% of Spring Lake Heights residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 49% of the jobs based in Spring Lake Heights pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Spring Lake Heights is services
88% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Spring Lake Heights’ workforce skews older
37% of Spring Lake Heights’ working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Spring Lake Heights’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spring Lake Heights is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #207 of 468 in New Jersey. The poverty rate holds Spring Lake Heights’ grade up (4.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Lake Heights could be anywhere from B to A+.
7% of working residents work in Wall Township
Where Spring Lake Heights clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Spring Lake Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Lake Heights, 2014 → 2024: 1,072 → 1,081. 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 Spring Lake Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Spring Lake Heights
On a workday 2,058 residents head out to work, 121 work right here, and 960 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,800 people are in Spring Lake Heights on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Commuting from Spring Lake Heights: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Lake Heights workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,078 commuters (the 21% 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 Spring Lake Heights
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Spring Lake Heights
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Lake Heights is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns, #127 of 468 in New Jersey. Both inputs place Spring Lake Heights 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 2,631 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 35% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 74% 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). 6.1% of Spring Lake Heights households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Spring Lake Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Spring Lake Heights is 687th of 3,840 U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| 6 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Hainesport Township NJ | 6,197 | $143K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 685 | Cambria NY | 5,727 | $112K | 5.0% | 3.8% | 6% | A− |
| 686 | Russell Township OH | 5,408 | $106K | 4.1% | 4.8% | 3% | A− |
| 687 | Spring Lake Heights NJ | 4,868 | $107K | 4.3% | 4.8% | 6% | A− |
| 688 | Winnebago Township IL | 4,965 | $94K | 6.8% | 2.0% | 10% | A− |
| 689 | Ninnescah Township KS | 3,563 | $86K | 6.3% | 1.5% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Spring Lake Heights, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
Work next door: 10% of Spring Lake Heights’ workers
The biggest share goes to Wall Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Lake Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Heights | – | A− | A+ | 29 min | $106,758 |
| Wall Township | 7% | A | A− | 27 min | $142,768 |
| Sea Girt | under 2% | A+ | A | 28 min | $213,750 |
| West Belmar | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Spring Lake | 3% | A+ | A+ | 33 min | $215,625 |
Same-state neighbors only. West Belmar: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Spring Lake Heights’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 Spring Lake Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Lake Heights?
$106,758 (±$16,636) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Lake Heights?
4.3%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Lake Heights?
29 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Lake Heights work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wall Township (7%, 3 mi), New York City (6%, 36 mi), Neptune Township (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Spring Lake Heights walkable?
Spring Lake Heights is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.9 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Lake Heights without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 35% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Lake Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Lake Heights
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.