Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NJ · GEOID 34825702024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 32.8 min one way; 16.6% worked from home, 63.2% drove alone, and 15.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip32.8 min±5.6 min MOE
Worked from home16.6%±4.9 pp MOE
Drove alone63.2%±6.6 pp MOE
60+ minute trip15.8%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Wood-Ridge borough's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.7 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.6 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Wood-Ridge borough residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 63.2%; 16.3% used public transit and 16.6% worked from home.
Each share uses 5,566 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Wood-Ridge borough compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 87th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 87% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 70% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 99% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 89% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Wood-Ridge borough's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 5,566 workers age 16+, including 4,642 workers with reported travel time and 924 home workers.
Population estimate10,218± 23 MOE
Workers age 16+5,566± 409 MOE
Workers with travel time4,642± 464 MOE
Estimated home workers924± 283 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All New Jersey reports →Comparable New Jersey commute records for Wood-Ridge borough
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.