Work & commute · Banks

Work & commute in Banks, MI

Most working residents leave Banks for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Charlevoix (7%), Charlevoix (7%) and East Jordan (7%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

57 of 502 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 445 Banks residents head out of town to work, 57 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Banks.

445live here, work elsewhere

57live and work here

229work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Banks goes to work

Banks (in town)right here

11%57

Charlevoix10.4 mi away

7%36

Charlevoix10.1 mi away

7%34

East Jordan8.3 mi away

7%33

Central Lake6.3 mi away

5%27

Traverse City32.1 mi away

4%21

Torch Lake8.9 mi away

3%16

Kearney14.4 mi away

3%15

Garfield34.5 mi away

3%14

Boyne City14.6 mi away

3%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%236

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

How far

How far Banks commutes

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

34%

29%

13%

24%

34%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Banks is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Banks are

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

Jobs based in Banks

286 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Banks residents hold

502 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month50%

+37%

Jobs based in Banks, 2011 → 2021: 209 → 286. 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.