Work & commute · Atlas

Work & commute in Atlas, MI

Most working residents leave Atlas for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Flint (8%), Grand Blanc (5%) and Auburn Hills (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

188 of 3,208 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 3,020 Atlas residents head out of town to work, 188 work right here, and 824 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Atlas.

3,020live here, work elsewhere

188live and work here

824work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Atlas goes to work

Flint11.4 mi away

8%263

Atlas (in town)right here

6%188

Grand Blanc5.9 mi away

5%156

Auburn Hills21.9 mi away

4%138

Flint13.9 mi away

4%135

Waterford19 mi away

3%110

Lansing54.8 mi away

3%97

Warren38.7 mi away

3%84

Grand Blanc5.3 mi away

2%80

Brandon8.1 mi away

2%74

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%1,883

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

How far

How far Atlas commutes

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

23%

36%

26%

15%

23%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Atlas is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Atlas are

1,012 jobs are based in Atlas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Atlas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Atlas

1,012 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Atlas residents hold

3,208 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month61%

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Jobs based in Atlas, 2011 → 2021: 1,015 → 1,012. 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.