Employment
The most common occupations for employment in Trenton and Mercer County include:
- Management, professional, and related occupations: 42%
- Sales and office occupations: 28%
- Service occupations: 15%
- Production, transportation, and material moving occupations: 9%
- Construction, extraction, and maintenance occupations: 5%
- Seventy-two percent of the people are employed as private wage and salary workers; 22 percent are Federal, state, or local government workers; and 5 percent are self-employed.
Employment by industries breaks down as follows:
- Construction: 4%
- Manufacturing: 12%
- Wholesale Trade: 3%
- Retail Trade: 9%
- Transportation, warehousing and utilities: 3%
- Information: 4%
- Finance, insurance, real estate: 8%
- Professional and business services: 11%
- Educational, health and social services: 22%
- Leisure and hospitality: 8%
- Other services: 5%
- Public Administration: 11%
Trenton Fast Facts
Population: 85,403
Median Household Income: $31,074
Per Capita Income: $14,621
Latitude: 40.216N
Longitude: 74.743W
Commuting Time:
Average travel time to work: 24 minutes
Average travel time to work using public transportation: 41 minutes
Average travel time to work using other transportation: 22 minutes
Trenton is on Eastern Standard Time and observes Daylight Savings Time.