Every workday, about 160 people come to Amasa for work
Most working residents leave Amasa for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Iron River (28%), Crystal Falls (16%) and Kingsford (7%). Half commute less than 14 miles.
What kind of work town is Amasa?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Amasa fills up on a workday
On a workday 57 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 350 people are in Amasa on a workday afternoon, 40% more than live here.
2.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Amasa workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Where Amasa’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Amasa clocks in
28% of workers
16% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Amasa commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 30% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
Amasa makes things: 81% of its jobs are in goods
157 jobs are based in Amasa. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Amasa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Amasa, 2011 → 2021: 44 → 157. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
Amasa and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Crystal Falls (4%). Darker towns draw more of Amasa’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Amasa
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Amasa, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.