Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Three Bridges has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Three Bridges has 19 jobs; 140 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Three Bridges itself; outside it, Bridgewater Township draws the most (9%, 11 miles). 11% of workers work from home; New Jersey has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Three Bridges quiets down on a workday
On a workday 140 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 510 people are in Three Bridges on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 Three Bridges goes to work
Where Three Bridges clocks in
9% 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.
What Three Bridges’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Three Bridges, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 19. 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 Three Bridges’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Three Bridges takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Three Bridges workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 302 commuters (the 11% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Three Bridges
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.
The towns around Three Bridges
The biggest share goes to Raritan Township (6%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Three Bridges workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Bridges | – | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Raritan Township | 6% | A | B− | 34 min | $165,174 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Three Bridges’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 Three Bridges: questions
What is the poverty rate in Three Bridges?
1.6%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Three Bridges?
23 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Three Bridges work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgewater Township (9%, 11 mi), Readington Township (6%, 5 mi), Raritan Township (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Three Bridges 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 Three Bridges, from the people who make the trip.
More of Three Bridges
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.