From New Jersey: Most Jobs in the Burbs

In Newark, the state's largest city, the number of inbound commuters grew by 6,500 last decade. Yet the number of Newark residents who work in Newark plummeted by more than 11,500.

In all, 23 percent of the local jobs held by residents of the state's 30 largest cities were lost between 1990 and 2000, a drop of roughly 60,000 positions. The overall number of city residents who worked dropped by nearly 45,000.

Suburban and rural office parks and commercial properties, meanwhile, added jobs furiously in the 1990s - 128,000 in all.

While major urban areas like Newark, Jersey City, Atlantic City and Trenton still top the list of places New Jerseyans work, towns like Parsippany-Troy Hills, Woodbridge and other suburban job magnets are right behind them and gaining.

The trend has far-reaching implications, hampering efforts to rein in sprawl and furthering the racial and class divides that have long worried advocates of the poor, the courts, sprawl watchdogs and policymakers.

Moving jobs into what had once been bedroom communities, critics say, has allowed housing to push much farther out into the state's last rural places.

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