Work & commute · Acme

Work & commute in Acme, MI

Most working residents leave Acme for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Traverse City (35%), Garfield (13%) and East Bay (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

60 of 1,738 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,678 Acme residents head out of town to work, 60 work right here, and 701 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Acme.

1,678live here, work elsewhere

60live and work here

701work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Acme goes to work

Traverse City7.4 mi away

35%616

Garfield9.6 mi away

13%224

East Bay7.1 mi away

4%67

Acme (in town)right here

3%60

Suttons Bay16.4 mi away

3%59

Elk Rapids7.8 mi away

3%50

Kalkaska12.7 mi away

2%35

Blair13.5 mi away

2%32

Whitewater4 mi away

2%31

Elmwood9.9 mi away

1%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%540

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Acme commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

59%

15%

21%

59%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Acme is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.44 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Acme are

761 jobs are based in Acme. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Acme’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Acme

761 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Acme residents hold

1,738 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−39%

Jobs based in Acme, 2011 → 2021: 1,241 → 761. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.