Newark

City Commute Profile

Newark, NJ

Where Newark’s 112,189 resident workers go each day — 24.9% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New York.

New JerseyLODES 2023 data
36
Commute Score

36 / 100

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

Newark at a glance
Employed Residents
112,189
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
12.6mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
24.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
7.3%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New York
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Newark 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 Newark 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.

Newark

112,189 commutes, one dot at a time

Newark

Where 112,189 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

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

1Newark0.0 mi27,979
2New York14.2 mi12,087
3Jersey City6.3 mi3,736
4Elizabeth5.2 mi3,703
5East Orange2.5 mi1,981
6Secaucus7.4 mi1,418
7Kearny3.1 mi1,298
8Trenton46.5 mi1,102

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Newark.

1Newark0.0 mi27,979
2New York14.2 mi8,191
3Jersey City6.3 mi6,362
4Elizabeth5.2 mi5,211
5East Orange2.5 mi4,635
6Kearny3.1 mi1,907
7Bayonne5.8 mi1,707
8Linden7.7 mi1,556

Top industries

The sectors that employ Newark’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%)
TRTransportation and Warehousing19.4%
EDEducational Services13.7%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance11.8%
FIFinance and Insurance8.8%
PAPublic Administration6.6%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.3%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.6%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.5%
MFManufacturing4.3%

Newark city profile

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

Population
310,178
Median age
34.7yrs
Median household income
$52,060
Median home value
$373,700
Median gross rent
$1,392/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
19.7%
Poverty rate
23.4%

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

Connectivity

Internet options for Newark

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps100%
8 Gbps100%
See all internet providers in Newark

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).