Work and Jobs in East Brunswick, New Jersey (NJ) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
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The most common industries in East Brunswick are: Educational services (11.4% of civilian employees), Professional, scientific, technical services (11.0% of civilian employees), Finance & insurance (9.8% of civilian employees). 68.8% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 2.7% less than the rate of 70.6% across the entire state of New Jersey.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Educational services | 11.4% (2,743) | 5.6% (719) | 18.0% (2,024) |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 11.0% (2,650) | 13.0% (1,671) | 8.7% (979) |
Finance and insurance | 9.8% (2,354) | 9.7% (1,245) | 9.8% (1,109) |
Health care | 9.2% (2,225) | 5.3% (684) | 13.7% (1,541) |
Chemicals | 3.9% (933) | 4.0% (511) | 3.7% (422) |
Construction | 3.6% (863) | 6.2% (795) | 0.6% (68) |
Public administration | 3.2% (777) | 3.5% (455) | 2.9% (322) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 3.2% (776) | 3.7% (482) | 2.6% (294) |
Accommodation and food services | 3.0% (730) | 3.3% (419) | 2.8% (311) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 2.5% (597) | 2.4% (312) | 2.5% (285) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.9% (460) | 2.7% (350) | 1.0% (110) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 1.9% (451) | 1.6% (203) | 2.2% (248) |
Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 1.6% (377) | 1.2% (158) | 1.9% (219) |
Food and beverage stores | 1.5% (370) | 1.4% (179) | 1.7% (191) |
Social assistance | 1.5% (359) | 0.2% (28) | 2.9% (331) |
Personal and laundry services | 1.5% (350) | 0.7% (87) | 2.3% (263) |
Computer and electronic products | 1.4% (340) | 1.6% (210) | 1.2% (130) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 1.4% (340) | 1.8% (226) | 1.0% (114) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 1.4% (339) | 1.0% (132) | 1.8% (207) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 1.3% (313) | 1.2% (160) | 1.4% (153) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 1.1% (264) | 1.7% (217) | 0.4% (47) |
Truck transportation | 1.0% (231) | 1.6% (204) | 0.2% (27) |
Repair and maintenance | 1.0% (230) | 1.7% (225) | 0.0% (5) |
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.9% (213) | 1.1% (142) | 0.6% (71) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 0.9% (212) | 0.7% (92) | 1.1% (120) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.9% (210) | 0.9% (120) | 0.8% (90) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 0.9% (208) | 0.9% (118) | 0.8% (90) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 0.8% (187) | 1.2% (158) | 0.3% (29) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 0.8% (185) | 0.9% (110) | 0.7% (75) |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.7% (161) | 0.8% (104) | 0.5% (57) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.7% (159) | 0.8% (108) | 0.5% (51) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 0.6% (155) | 1.0% (126) | 0.3% (29) |
Utilities | 0.6% (154) | 1.2% (154) | 0.0% (0) |
Printing and related support activities | 0.6% (154) | 0.8% (105) | 0.4% (49) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.6% (144) | 0.7% (94) | 0.4% (50) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.6% (139) | 0.3% (39) | 0.9% (100) |
Metal and metal products | 0.5% (132) | 0.9% (117) | 0.1% (15) |
Paper | 0.5% (128) | 0.9% (119) | 0.1% (9) |
Apparel | 0.5% (126) | 0.6% (75) | 0.5% (51) |
Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (122) | 0.7% (89) | 0.3% (33) |
Food | 0.5% (120) | 0.6% (82) | 0.3% (38) |
U. S. Postal service | 0.5% (113) | 0.6% (74) | 0.3% (39) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (110) | 0.5% (63) | 0.4% (47) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.5% (110) | 0.3% (39) | 0.6% (71) |
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores | 0.4% (102) | 0.5% (58) | 0.4% (44) |
Machinery | 0.4% (100) | 0.5% (59) | 0.4% (41) |
Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (94) | 0.3% (44) | 0.4% (50) |
Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (94) | 0.2% (28) | 0.6% (66) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (89) | 0.5% (66) | 0.2% (23) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.3% (83) | 0.5% (64) | 0.2% (19) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.3% (80) | 0.3% (45) | 0.3% (35) |
Book stores and news dealers | 0.3% (79) | 0.2% (23) | 0.5% (56) |
Gasoline stations | 0.3% (77) | 0.5% (62) | 0.1% (15) |
Plastics and rubber products | 0.3% (73) | 0.4% (46) | 0.2% (27) |
Petroleum and coal products | 0.3% (66) | 0.4% (55) | 0.1% (11) |
Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.2% (60) | 0.3% (34) | 0.2% (26) |
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (58) | 0.3% (40) | 0.2% (18) |
Transportation equipment | 0.2% (52) | 0.3% (36) | 0.1% (16) |
Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.2% (49) | 0.2% (22) | 0.2% (27) |
Rail transportation | 0.2% (48) | 0.3% (34) | 0.1% (14) |
Air transportation | 0.2% (42) | 0.2% (20) | 0.2% (22) |
Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (38) | 0.3% (38) | 0.0% (0) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.1% (36) | 0.1% (14) | 0.2% (22) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (36) | 0.1% (19) | 0.2% (17) |
Private households | 0.1% (36) | 0.0% (0) | 0.3% (36) |
Wood products | 0.1% (34) | 0.2% (21) | 0.1% (13) |
Textile mills and textile products | 0.1% (31) | 0.2% (21) | 0.1% (10) |
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.1% (30) | 0.2% (25) | 0.0% (5) |
Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (30) | 0.1% (14) | 0.1% (16) |
Alcoholic beverages merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (29) | 0.1% (14) | 0.1% (15) |
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (29) | 0.1% (15) | 0.1% (14) |
Metals and minerals, except petroleum, merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (28) | 0.0% (5) | 0.2% (23) |
Water transportation | 0.1% (27) | 0.0% (6) | 0.2% (21) |
Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (26) | 0.2% (26) | 0.0% (0) |
Music stores | 0.1% (25) | 0.1% (12) | 0.1% (13) |
Fuel dealers | 0.1% (23) | 0.2% (23) | 0.0% (0) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (19) | 0.1% (13) | 0.1% (6) |
Nonmetallic mineral products | 0.1% (18) | 0.1% (18) | 0.0% (0) |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.1% (16) | 0.1% (16) | 0.0% (0) |
Beverage and tobacco products | 0.1% (15) | 0.1% (15) | 0.0% (0) |
Unemployment in East Brunswick
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 3.1%Males
- 3.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 1.3%Males
- 6.3%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 3.0%Males
- 4.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 2.5%Males
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 12.7%Males
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 9.8%Males
- 2.3%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
East Brunswick: | 1.7% (401) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,776) |
5:30am:
East Brunswick: | 2.0% (479) |
New Jersey: | 2.1% (83,147) |
6am:
East Brunswick: | 2.8% (669) |
New Jersey: | 3.2% (124,191) |
6:30am:
East Brunswick: | 8.2% (1,941) |
New Jersey: | 7.7% (297,494) |
7am:
East Brunswick: | 9.9% (2,343) |
New Jersey: | 9.5% (369,088) |
7:30am:
East Brunswick: | 16.4% (3,898) |
New Jersey: | 14.4% (558,435) |
8am:
East Brunswick: | 14.1% (3,339) |
New Jersey: | 15.3% (592,839) |
8:30am:
East Brunswick: | 13.7% (3,264) |
New Jersey: | 14.0% (541,137) |
9am:
East Brunswick: | 9.5% (2,248) |
New Jersey: | 7.6% (295,834) |
10am:
East Brunswick: | 7.4% (1,757) |
New Jersey: | 6.4% (246,745) |
11am:
East Brunswick: | 2.5% (589) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,391) |
12pm:
East Brunswick: | 1.0% (226) |
New Jersey: | 1.1% (43,997) |
4pm:
East Brunswick: | 3.7% (887) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,079) |
>4pm:
East Brunswick: | 4.2% (993) |
New Jersey: | 5.6% (218,724) |
Travel time to work
Daytime population change due to commuting: -619 (-1.3%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 4,988 (21.0%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 4,988 (21.0%)
Less than 5 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 1.7% (395) |
New Jersey: | 2.6% (99,241) |
5 to 9 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 7.2% (1,722) |
New Jersey: | 9.0% (347,598) |
10 to 14 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 10.3% (2,442) |
New Jersey: | 12.5% (482,988) |
15 to 19 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 9.3% (2,199) |
New Jersey: | 13.2% (510,571) |
20 to 24 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 10.2% (2,435) |
New Jersey: | 12.8% (497,467) |
25 to 29 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 4.6% (1,091) |
New Jersey: | 5.4% (210,226) |
30 to 34 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 12.1% (2,869) |
New Jersey: | 12.7% (492,539) |
35 to 39 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 3.6% (866) |
New Jersey: | 2.8% (109,571) |
40 to 44 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 5.0% (1,191) |
New Jersey: | 4.0% (156,148) |
45 to 59 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 11.0% (2,612) |
New Jersey: | 9.1% (352,609) |
60 to 89 minutes:
East Brunswick: | 12.2% (2,900) |
New Jersey: | 8.7% (335,777) |
90 or more minutes:
East Brunswick: | 9.7% (2,312) |
New Jersey: | 4.5% (175,142) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
East Brunswick: | 76.5% (18,185) |
New Jersey: | 73.0% (2,828,303) |
Carpooled:
East Brunswick: | 8.5% (2,011) |
New Jersey: | 10.6% (412,299) |
Bus or trolley bus:
East Brunswick: | 9.2% (2,175) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,067) |
Subway or elevated:
East Brunswick: | 0.0% (11) |
New Jersey: | 1.3% (50,279) |
Railroad:
East Brunswick: | 1.1% (267) |
New Jersey: | 2.4% (93,864) |
Taxicab:
East Brunswick: | 0.0% (6) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (7,879) |
Bicycle:
East Brunswick: | 0.3% (62) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (9,142) |
Walked:
East Brunswick: | 1.1% (265) |
New Jersey: | 3.1% (121,305) |
Other means:
East Brunswick: | 0.2% (52) |
New Jersey: | 0.7% (25,484) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
East Brunswick: | 90.0% (18,185) |
New Jersey: | 87.3% (2,828,303) |
In 2 person carpool:
East Brunswick: | 8.2% (1,664) |
New Jersey: | 9.6% (311,146) |
In 3 person carpool:
East Brunswick: | 1.1% (220) |
New Jersey: | 1.7% (55,192) |
In 4 person carpool:
East Brunswick: | 0.3% (70) |
New Jersey: | 0.7% (21,516) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
East Brunswick: | 0.1% (30) |
New Jersey: | 0.4% (12,963) |
In 7+ person carpool:
East Brunswick: | 0.1% (27) |
New Jersey: | 0.4% (11,482) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
East Brunswick: | 68.8% (16,595) |
New Jersey: | 70.6% (2,789,718) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
East Brunswick: | 5.2% (1,260) |
New Jersey: | 3.8% (149,548) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
East Brunswick: | 5.5% (1,316) |
New Jersey: | 6.4% (254,203) |
Local government workers:
East Brunswick: | 8.5% (2,051) |
New Jersey: | 7.9% (311,080) |
State government workers:
East Brunswick: | 5.2% (1,264) |
New Jersey: | 3.8% (151,067) |
Federal government workers:
East Brunswick: | 1.3% (319) |
New Jersey: | 2.2% (88,294) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
East Brunswick: | 5.3% (1,276) |
New Jersey: | 5.0% (197,664) |
Unpaid family workers:
East Brunswick: | 0.2% (55) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (8,455) |
Employee of private company - Males:
East Brunswick: | 72.3% (9,302) |
New Jersey: | 72.1% (1,513,771) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
East Brunswick: | 7.7% (986) |
New Jersey: | 5.5% (115,635) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
East Brunswick: | 2.8% (358) |
New Jersey: | 3.9% (82,116) |
Local government workers - Males:
East Brunswick: | 4.9% (629) |
New Jersey: | 6.3% (131,844) |
State government workers - Males:
East Brunswick: | 3.8% (495) |
New Jersey: | 3.2% (68,111) |
Federal government workers - Males:
East Brunswick: | 1.6% (208) |
New Jersey: | 2.6% (53,792) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
East Brunswick: | 6.6% (854) |
New Jersey: | 6.2% (130,204) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
East Brunswick: | 0.2% (31) |
New Jersey: | 0.2% (3,384) |
Employee of private company - Females:
East Brunswick: | 64.7% (7,293) |
New Jersey: | 68.9% (1,275,947) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
East Brunswick: | 2.4% (274) |
New Jersey: | 1.8% (33,913) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
East Brunswick: | 8.5% (958) |
New Jersey: | 9.3% (172,087) |
Local government workers - Females:
East Brunswick: | 12.6% (1,422) |
New Jersey: | 9.7% (179,236) |
State government workers - Females:
East Brunswick: | 6.8% (769) |
New Jersey: | 4.5% (82,956) |
Federal government workers - Females:
East Brunswick: | 1.0% (111) |
New Jersey: | 1.9% (34,502) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
East Brunswick: | 3.7% (422) |
New Jersey: | 3.6% (67,460) |
Unpaid family workers - Females:
East Brunswick: | 0.2% (24) |
New Jersey: | 0.3% (5,071) |