Work & commute · Au Gres

Work & commute in Au Gres, MI

Most working residents leave Au Gres for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Standish (5%), Bay City (5%) and Sims (3%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

45 of 262 working residents

Typical commute

32 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 217 Au Gres residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 342 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Au Gres.

217live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

342work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Au Gres goes to work

Au Gres (in town)right here

17%45

Standish14.2 mi away

5%14

Bay City32.8 mi away

5%12

Sims5.6 mi away

3%9

Tawas City17.6 mi away

3%8

Chippewa57.4 mi away

3%8

Saginaw45.2 mi away

3%7

Deep River14.5 mi away

2%6

East Tawas20 mi away

2%5

Southfield110.6 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%144

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

How far

How far Au Gres commutes

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

25%

18%

19%

37%

25%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Au Gres is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Au Gres are

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

Jobs based in Au Gres

387 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)52%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Au Gres residents hold

262 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month43%

−3%

Jobs based in Au Gres, 2011 → 2021: 398 → 387. 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.