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More than one in five Morris County workers now work from home. An estimated 21.8 percent of the county’s 268,168 workers, about 58,467 people, reported working from home, according to Shop Morris County’s analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s newest American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2020 to 2024. That is well above New Jersey’s 16.8 percent and the national 15.1 percent.
Among New Jersey’s 21 counties, only Somerset County (22.7 percent) has a higher work-from-home rate, with Hunterdon County a hair behind Morris at 21.8 percent. Chatham Borough leads every Morris County town at 36.6 percent.
The top 10 work-from-home towns
Ranked by share of workers 16 and older who work from home: 1. Chatham Borough, 36.6 percent. 2. Mendham Borough, 33.4 percent. 3. Florham Park, 30.9 percent. 4. Mountain Lakes, 30.8 percent. 5. Morris Plains, 30.2 percent. 6. Denville, 29.6 percent. 7. Long Hill, 28.9 percent. 8. Washington Township, 28.3 percent. 9. Madison, 27.7 percent. 10. Chatham Township, 27.6 percent. Chester Township (27.5 percent) and Morris Township (27.3 percent) are right behind. In all, 12 Morris County towns are above 27 percent.
The biggest remote workforces
By headcount, Parsippany-Troy Hills has the most home-based workers, about 6,573, followed by Rockaway Township (3,483), Randolph (3,475) and Morris Township (3,274). In 16 of Morris County’s 39 towns, at least one in four workers works from home.
How everyone else gets to work
Driving alone is still the most common commute, at 66.3 percent of Morris County workers. Public transportation accounts for 3.3 percent countywide, but the train matters a lot in a few towns: in Chatham Borough an estimated 14.2 percent of workers commute by commuter rail, the highest share in the county. Madison has the county’s highest walk-to-work share, 7.3 percent, with Morristown at 6.0 percent.
How we compiled this
We used Census table B08301, Means of Transportation to Work, downloaded from the Census Bureau’s ACS summary file, and divided the number of workers who worked from home by all workers 16 and older in each Morris County municipality. The figures pool survey responses from 2020 through 2024, a stretch that includes the pandemic years, and they are the most recent available for individual towns. Each estimate has a margin of error, so towns within a couple of points of each other are effectively tied.
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