Work & commute · Arcadia

Work & commute in Arcadia, MI

Most working residents leave Arcadia for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Manistee (11%), Bear Lake (10%) and Frankfort (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 218 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 203 Arcadia residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 299 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Arcadia.

203live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

299work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Arcadia goes to work

Manistee13.1 mi away

11%25

Bear Lake7.4 mi away

10%21

Arcadia (in town)right here

7%15

Frankfort11.4 mi away

6%12

Gilmore8.5 mi away

6%12

Benzonia13.4 mi away

5%10

Weldon11.6 mi away

5%10

Onekama6.3 mi away

4%8

Manistee17 mi away

3%7

Traverse City35.3 mi away

3%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%91

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

How far

How far Arcadia commutes

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

37%

29%

11%

23%

37%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Arcadia is balanced between jobs and homes

1.44jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Arcadia are

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

Jobs based in Arcadia

314 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities75%

Services (health, schools, offices…)19%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Arcadia residents hold

218 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+193%

Jobs based in Arcadia, 2011 → 2021: 107 → 314. 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.