Photo: Apuch · CC BY-SA 2.0Stone Harbor draws 671 commuters a day, with 3.3 jobs for every working resident
The trip to work takes 32 minutes on average, where New Jersey has 31 and the U.S. 26. Stone Harbor has 716 jobs; 219 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers (New Jersey 17%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Stone Harbor in brief
Stone Harbor has far more jobs than workers
Stone Harbor has 716 jobs, 3.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,300 people are in town, 64% more than the 780 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stone Harbor’s workforce skews older
46% of Stone Harbor’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 219 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Stone Harbor on a workday afternoon
On a workday 174 residents head out to work and 45 work right here.
About 1,300 people are in Stone Harbor on a workday afternoon, 64% more 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.
What Stone Harbor’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stone Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 477 → 716. 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 Stone Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Stone Harbor works
About 35% 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.
Where Stone Harbor’s workers come from
Where Stone Harbor clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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.
About 32 minutes each way, about the NJ average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stone Harbor workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 245 commuters (the 28% 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 towns next door employ 12% of Stone Harbor
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Stone Harbor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Harbor | – | — | — | 32 min | $169,167 |
| Middle Township | 12% | C+ | A− | 20 min | $83,508 |
| North Wildwood | under 2% | B | A+ | 21 min | $90,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Middle Township. Darker towns draw more of Stone Harbor’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 Stone Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Stone Harbor?
$169,167 (±$72,024) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stone Harbor?
6.0%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stone Harbor?
32 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stone Harbor work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middle Township (12%, 5 mi), Lower Township (7%, 9 mi), Philadelphia (5%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Stone Harbor without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stone Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stone Harbor
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.