Work & commute · Auburn Hills

Work & commute in Auburn Hills, MI

Most working residents leave Auburn Hills for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Troy (12%), Pontiac (7%) and Rochester Hills (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

1,645 of 10,092 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,447 Auburn Hills residents head out of town to work, 1,645 work right here, and 59,809 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Auburn Hills.

8,447live here, work elsewhere

1,645live and work here

59,809work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Auburn Hills goes to work

Auburn Hills (in town)right here

16%1,645

Troy8 mi away

12%1,175

Pontiac2.8 mi away

7%734

Rochester Hills4.4 mi away

5%550

Southfield13.8 mi away

4%416

Detroit21.4 mi away

4%377

Farmington Hills14.7 mi away

3%308

Warren16.8 mi away

3%253

Sterling Heights12.6 mi away

2%248

Bloomfield6.9 mi away

2%214

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%4,172

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

How far

How far Auburn Hills commutes

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

52%

32%

52%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Auburn Hills is a job hub

6.09jobs per working resident

A job hub

6.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Auburn Hills are

61,454 jobs are based in Auburn Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Auburn Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Auburn Hills

61,454 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs Auburn Hills residents hold

10,092 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+57%

Jobs based in Auburn Hills, 2011 → 2021: 39,200 → 61,454. 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.