Jersey City

City Commute Profile

Jersey City, NJ

Where Jersey City’s 148,142 resident workers go each day — 17.4% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New York.

New JerseyLODES 2023 data
27
Commute Score

27 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Jersey City at a glance
Employed Residents
148,142
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
7.8mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
17.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
24.7%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New York
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Jersey City proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Jersey City commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Jersey City

148,142 commutes, one dot at a time

Jersey City

Where 148,142 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Jersey City, by worker count.

1New York7.8 mi57,311
2Jersey City0.0 mi25,849
3Newark6.3 mi6,362
4Hoboken2.3 mi3,596
5Secaucus4.5 mi2,826
6Bayonne4.7 mi1,704
7Elizabeth8.6 mi1,278
8Kearny4.6 mi1,184

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Jersey City.

1Jersey City0.0 mi25,849
2New York7.8 mi20,522
3Bayonne4.7 mi4,905
4Newark6.3 mi3,736
5Hoboken2.3 mi1,983
6Union City3.6 mi1,983
7Elizabeth8.6 mi1,728
8West New York5.3 mi1,321

Top industries

The sectors that employ Jersey City’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
FIFinance and Insurance28.6%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance10.1%
EDEducational Services7.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.7%
RTRetail Trade6.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services5.8%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.6%
PAPublic Administration5.5%
TRTransportation and Warehousing5.4%

Jersey City city profile

Who lives in Jersey City — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
294,078
Median age
34.7yrs
Median household income
$97,710
Median home value
$566,900
Median gross rent
$2,007/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
54.8%
Poverty rate
15.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

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