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 4.0Waretown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Waretown has 379 jobs; 698 of its residents have a job. Only 3% work in Waretown itself; outside it, Toms River Township draws the most (10%, 14 miles). 1% of workers work from home (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: Waretown in brief
Waretown workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 44 minutes each way, against 31 across New Jersey. Over a year that’s about 337 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
54% of the jobs in Waretown are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Waretown workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 17% across New Jersey. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 698 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Getting to work from Waretown takes about 44 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Waretown workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 733 commuters (the 1% 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.
What Waretown’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Waretown, 2013 → 2023: 196 → 379. 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 Waretown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Waretown
On a workday 680 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Waretown on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 Waretown goes to work
Where Waretown clocks in
10% of workers
7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Waretown
About 20% 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.
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 Waretown: questions
What is the median household income in Waretown?
$121,538 (±$91,447) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Waretown?
3.1%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Waretown?
44 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Waretown work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toms River Township (10%, 14 mi), Stafford Township (7%, 7 mi), Ocean Township (6%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Waretown without a car?
2% 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 Waretown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Waretown
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.