Work & commute · Bingham

Work & commute in Bingham, MI

Most working residents leave Bingham for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Traverse City (26%), Suttons Bay (16%) and Garfield (10%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34 of 925 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 891 Bingham residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 290 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bingham.

891live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

290work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bingham goes to work

Traverse City11.2 mi away

26%242

Suttons Bay5.7 mi away

16%145

Garfield13 mi away

10%90

Leland23.1 mi away

5%48

Bingham (in town)right here

4%34

Elmwood6.1 mi away

3%27

Leelanau16.8 mi away

3%26

East Bay16.4 mi away

2%15

Grand Rapids134.9 mi away

2%14

Glen Arbor23.1 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%275

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

How far

How far Bingham commutes

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

39%

35%

23%

39%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bingham is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bingham are

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

Jobs based in Bingham

324 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)64%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)26%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Bingham residents hold

925 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−1%

Jobs based in Bingham, 2011 → 2021: 328 → 324. 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.