Work & commute · Bay Mills

Work & commute in Bay Mills, MI

50% of Bay Mills’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (20%), Superior (3%) and Kinross (3%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

50%

319 of 636 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 317 Bay Mills residents head out of town to work, 319 work right here, and 437 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bay Mills.

317live here, work elsewhere

319live and work here

437work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bay Mills goes to work

Bay Mills (in town)right here

50%319

Sault Ste. Marie19.8 mi away

20%130

Superior6.5 mi away

3%20

Kinross10.2 mi away

3%19

Soo30.8 mi away

2%14

Dafter17 mi away

1%8

Kentwood248.3 mi away

1%7

Marquette124.6 mi away

1%6

Whitefish19.9 mi away

1%6

Bruce23.6 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

16%102

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

How far

How far Bay Mills commutes

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

58%

24%

15%

58%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bay Mills is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bay Mills are

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

Jobs based in Bay Mills

756 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)95%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month47%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Bay Mills residents hold

636 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month42%

+759%

Jobs based in Bay Mills, 2011 → 2021: 88 → 756. 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.