Work and Jobs in Pennsauken, New Jersey (NJ) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
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The most common industries in Pennsauken are: Health care (9.8% of civilian employees), Educational services (8.2% of civilian employees), Public administration (6.3% of civilian employees). 71.6% of workers are employees of private companies, which is about the same as the rate of 70.6% across the entire state of New Jersey.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Industry | All | Males | Females |
| Health care | 9.8% (1,560) | 3.8% (315) | 16.0% (1,245) |
| Educational services | 8.2% (1,314) | 4.8% (396) | 11.8% (918) |
| Public administration | 6.3% (998) | 6.3% (515) | 6.2% (483) |
| Professional, scientific, and technical services | 6.1% (976) | 6.2% (505) | 6.1% (471) |
| Finance and insurance | 5.5% (871) | 4.6% (374) | 6.4% (497) |
| Construction | 5.1% (817) | 8.6% (702) | 1.5% (115) |
| Accommodation and food services | 4.9% (787) | 5.6% (461) | 4.2% (326) |
| Administrative and support and waste management services | 4.2% (665) | 4.8% (391) | 3.5% (274) |
| Social assistance | 2.4% (387) | 0.5% (45) | 4.4% (342) |
| Food and beverage stores | 2.1% (343) | 2.1% (176) | 2.2% (167) |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 2.1% (333) | 1.9% (159) | 2.2% (174) |
| Department and other general merchandise stores | 1.9% (308) | 1.5% (119) | 2.4% (189) |
| Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.9% (299) | 2.6% (217) | 1.1% (82) |
| Repair and maintenance | 1.8% (285) | 2.9% (239) | 0.6% (46) |
| Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1.7% (268) | 2.1% (175) | 1.2% (93) |
| Truck transportation | 1.6% (256) | 2.5% (204) | 0.7% (52) |
| Metal and metal products | 1.5% (241) | 2.3% (188) | 0.7% (53) |
| Food | 1.5% (237) | 1.8% (150) | 1.1% (87) |
| Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 1.4% (229) | 1.1% (89) | 1.8% (140) |
| Personal and laundry services | 1.4% (229) | 0.6% (49) | 2.3% (180) |
| U. S. Postal service | 1.4% (221) | 1.5% (123) | 1.3% (98) |
| Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1.3% (214) | 2.0% (161) | 0.7% (53) |
| Printing and related support activities | 1.3% (202) | 1.7% (138) | 0.8% (64) |
| Broadcasting and telecommunications | 1.3% (202) | 1.7% (143) | 0.8% (59) |
| Real estate and rental and leasing | 1.2% (196) | 1.0% (78) | 1.5% (118) |
| Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 1.2% (196) | 0.7% (57) | 1.8% (139) |
| Chemicals | 1.2% (187) | 1.6% (128) | 0.8% (59) |
| Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 1.1% (173) | 1.2% (100) | 0.9% (73) |
| Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 1.0% (154) | 1.1% (91) | 0.8% (63) |
| Utilities | 1.0% (153) | 1.5% (123) | 0.4% (30) |
| Computer and electronic products | 0.8% (130) | 0.8% (66) | 0.8% (64) |
| Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.8% (124) | 1.0% (80) | 0.6% (44) |
| Nonmetallic mineral products | 0.8% (121) | 1.3% (109) | 0.2% (12) |
| Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.7% (119) | 1.2% (98) | 0.3% (21) |
| Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.7% (116) | 0.4% (34) | 1.1% (82) |
| Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.7% (112) | 0.7% (59) | 0.7% (53) |
| Transportation equipment | 0.7% (106) | 0.9% (77) | 0.4% (29) |
| Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.7% (105) | 0.9% (76) | 0.4% (29) |
| Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.6% (103) | 0.6% (52) | 0.7% (51) |
| Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 0.6% (98) | 0.2% (17) | 1.0% (81) |
| Machinery | 0.5% (85) | 0.6% (50) | 0.5% (35) |
| Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (85) | 0.6% (50) | 0.5% (35) |
| Other direct selling establishments | 0.5% (83) | 0.2% (19) | 0.8% (64) |
| Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (79) | 0.5% (43) | 0.5% (36) |
| Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.5% (78) | 0.4% (32) | 0.6% (46) |
| Warehousing and storage | 0.4% (67) | 0.5% (42) | 0.3% (25) |
| Paper | 0.4% (64) | 0.5% (44) | 0.3% (20) |
| Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (56) | 0.4% (33) | 0.3% (23) |
| Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.4% (56) | 0.5% (43) | 0.2% (13) |
| Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (51) | 0.6% (51) | 0.0% (0) |
| Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.3% (51) | 0.2% (19) | 0.4% (32) |
| Private households | 0.3% (46) | 0.0% (0) | 0.6% (46) |
| Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (44) | 0.5% (44) | 0.0% (0) |
| Air transportation | 0.3% (44) | 0.1% (6) | 0.5% (38) |
| Plastics and rubber products | 0.3% (41) | 0.4% (34) | 0.1% (7) |
| Apparel | 0.2% (36) | 0.1% (12) | 0.3% (24) |
| Rail transportation | 0.2% (35) | 0.4% (35) | 0.0% (0) |
| Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (34) | 0.4% (29) | 0.1% (5) |
| Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (34) | 0.2% (16) | 0.2% (18) |
| Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (32) | 0.2% (16) | 0.2% (16) |
| Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.2% (29) | 0.2% (15) | 0.2% (14) |
| Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.2% (29) | 0.2% (18) | 0.1% (11) |
| Beverage and tobacco products | 0.2% (27) | 0.3% (27) | 0.0% (0) |
| Music stores | 0.2% (26) | 0.2% (19) | 0.1% (7) |
| Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (26) | 0.2% (19) | 0.1% (7) |
| Recyclable material merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (25) | 0.2% (18) | 0.1% (7) |
| Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.2% (24) | 0.3% (21) | 0.0% (3) |
| Book stores and news dealers | 0.1% (23) | 0.2% (19) | 0.1% (4) |
| Textile mills and textile products | 0.1% (23) | 0.1% (8) | 0.2% (15) |
| Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (23) | 0.1% (12) | 0.1% (11) |
| Retail florists | 0.1% (22) | 0.0% (0) | 0.3% (22) |
| Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (21) | 0.3% (21) | 0.0% (0) |
| Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (19) | 0.2% (14) | 0.1% (5) |
| Gasoline stations | 0.1% (17) | 0.2% (13) | 0.1% (4) |
| Vending machine operators | 0.1% (15) | 0.2% (15) | 0.0% (0) |
| Wood products | 0.1% (12) | 0.1% (12) | 0.0% (0) |
| Petroleum and coal products | 0.1% (11) | 0.1% (11) | 0.0% (0) |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.1% (10) | 0.1% (10) | 0.0% (0) |
Unemployment in Pennsauken
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 3.5%Males
- 4.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 9.0%Males
- 4.9%Females
- Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native residents
- 44.4%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 6.5%Males
- 5.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 9.3%Males
- 9.2%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 3.2%Males
- 12.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 7.5%Males
- 10.1%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
| Pennsauken: | 3.1% (481) |
| New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,776) |
5:30am:
| Pennsauken: | 2.0% (312) |
| New Jersey: | 2.1% (83,147) |
6am:
| Pennsauken: | 4.3% (677) |
| New Jersey: | 3.2% (124,191) |
6:30am:
| Pennsauken: | 6.5% (1,016) |
| New Jersey: | 7.7% (297,494) |
7am:
| Pennsauken: | 10.0% (1,550) |
| New Jersey: | 9.5% (369,088) |
7:30am:
| Pennsauken: | 11.8% (1,833) |
| New Jersey: | 14.4% (558,435) |
8am:
| Pennsauken: | 15.8% (2,463) |
| New Jersey: | 15.3% (592,839) |
8:30am:
| Pennsauken: | 14.4% (2,236) |
| New Jersey: | 14.0% (541,137) |
9am:
| Pennsauken: | 6.1% (957) |
| New Jersey: | 7.6% (295,834) |
10am:
| Pennsauken: | 5.5% (849) |
| New Jersey: | 6.4% (246,745) |
11am:
| Pennsauken: | 2.1% (331) |
| New Jersey: | 2.4% (92,391) |
12pm:
| Pennsauken: | 0.8% (124) |
| New Jersey: | 1.1% (43,997) |
4pm:
| Pennsauken: | 7.3% (1,142) |
| New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,079) |
>4pm:
| Pennsauken: | 8.0% (1,243) |
| New Jersey: | 5.6% (218,724) |
Travel time to work
Daytime population change due to commuting: +5,342 (+14.9%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 3,255 (20.9%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 3,255 (20.9%)
Less than 5 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 3.0% (470) |
| New Jersey: | 2.6% (99,241) |
5 to 9 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 10.0% (1,552) |
| New Jersey: | 9.0% (347,598) |
10 to 14 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 16.5% (2,564) |
| New Jersey: | 12.5% (482,988) |
15 to 19 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 17.8% (2,771) |
| New Jersey: | 13.2% (510,571) |
20 to 24 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 15.0% (2,331) |
| New Jersey: | 12.8% (497,467) |
25 to 29 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 6.3% (983) |
| New Jersey: | 5.4% (210,226) |
30 to 34 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 11.3% (1,761) |
| New Jersey: | 12.7% (492,539) |
35 to 39 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 1.8% (278) |
| New Jersey: | 2.8% (109,571) |
40 to 44 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 2.7% (426) |
| New Jersey: | 4.0% (156,148) |
45 to 59 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 6.7% (1,039) |
| New Jersey: | 9.1% (352,609) |
60 to 89 minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 4.2% (646) |
| New Jersey: | 8.7% (335,777) |
90 or more minutes:
| Pennsauken: | 2.5% (393) |
| New Jersey: | 4.5% (175,142) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
| Pennsauken: | 75.5% (11,750) |
| New Jersey: | 73.0% (2,828,303) |
Carpooled:
| Pennsauken: | 12.6% (1,961) |
| New Jersey: | 10.6% (412,299) |
Bus or trolley bus:
| Pennsauken: | 4.2% (661) |
| New Jersey: | 5.5% (213,067) |
Streetcar or trolley car:
| Pennsauken: | 0.1% (13) |
| New Jersey: | 0.0% (1,521) |
Subway or elevated:
| Pennsauken: | 1.2% (193) |
| New Jersey: | 1.3% (50,279) |
Railroad:
| Pennsauken: | 0.7% (104) |
| New Jersey: | 2.4% (93,864) |
Taxicab:
| Pennsauken: | 0.1% (14) |
| New Jersey: | 0.2% (7,879) |
Bicycle:
| Pennsauken: | 0.4% (55) |
| New Jersey: | 0.2% (9,142) |
Walked:
| Pennsauken: | 2.0% (309) |
| New Jersey: | 3.1% (121,305) |
Other means:
| Pennsauken: | 1.0% (154) |
| New Jersey: | 0.7% (25,484) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
| Pennsauken: | 85.7% (11,750) |
| New Jersey: | 87.3% (2,828,303) |
In 2 person carpool:
| Pennsauken: | 12.5% (1,720) |
| New Jersey: | 9.6% (311,146) |
In 3 person carpool:
| Pennsauken: | 1.0% (134) |
| New Jersey: | 1.7% (55,192) |
In 4 person carpool:
| Pennsauken: | 0.4% (60) |
| New Jersey: | 0.7% (21,516) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
| Pennsauken: | 0.3% (42) |
| New Jersey: | 0.4% (12,963) |
In 7+ person carpool:
| Pennsauken: | 0.0% (5) |
| New Jersey: | 0.4% (11,482) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
| Pennsauken: | 71.6% (11,425) |
| New Jersey: | 70.6% (2,789,718) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
| Pennsauken: | 1.9% (311) |
| New Jersey: | 3.8% (149,548) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
| Pennsauken: | 7.1% (1,136) |
| New Jersey: | 6.4% (254,203) |
Local government workers:
| Pennsauken: | 8.1% (1,298) |
| New Jersey: | 7.9% (311,080) |
State government workers:
| Pennsauken: | 3.8% (609) |
| New Jersey: | 3.8% (151,067) |
Federal government workers:
| Pennsauken: | 3.8% (599) |
| New Jersey: | 2.2% (88,294) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
| Pennsauken: | 3.4% (542) |
| New Jersey: | 5.0% (197,664) |
Unpaid family workers:
| Pennsauken: | 0.3% (43) |
| New Jersey: | 0.2% (8,455) |
Employee of private company - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 73.7% (6,048) |
| New Jersey: | 72.1% (1,513,771) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 3.4% (275) |
| New Jersey: | 5.5% (115,635) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 4.9% (401) |
| New Jersey: | 3.9% (82,116) |
Local government workers - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 6.7% (551) |
| New Jersey: | 6.3% (131,844) |
State government workers - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 3.1% (255) |
| New Jersey: | 3.2% (68,111) |
Federal government workers - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 3.9% (321) |
| New Jersey: | 2.6% (53,792) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 4.1% (339) |
| New Jersey: | 6.2% (130,204) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
| Pennsauken: | 0.2% (13) |
| New Jersey: | 0.2% (3,384) |
Employee of private company - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 69.3% (5,377) |
| New Jersey: | 68.9% (1,275,947) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 0.5% (36) |
| New Jersey: | 1.8% (33,913) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 9.5% (735) |
| New Jersey: | 9.3% (172,087) |
Local government workers - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 9.6% (747) |
| New Jersey: | 9.7% (179,236) |
State government workers - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 4.6% (354) |
| New Jersey: | 4.5% (82,956) |
Federal government workers - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 3.6% (278) |
| New Jersey: | 1.9% (34,502) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 2.6% (203) |
| New Jersey: | 3.6% (67,460) |
Unpaid family workers - Females:
| Pennsauken: | 0.4% (30) |
| New Jersey: | 0.3% (5,071) |