Work & commute · Bloomfield Hills

Work & commute in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Most working residents leave Bloomfield Hills for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Detroit (10%), Troy (8%) and Southfield (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

137 of 1,576 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,439 Bloomfield Hills residents head out of town to work, 137 work right here, and 6,671 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bloomfield Hills.

1,439live here, work elsewhere

137live and work here

6,671work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bloomfield Hills goes to work

Detroit15.5 mi away

10%163

Bloomfield Hills (in town)right here

9%137

Troy5.1 mi away

8%132

Southfield7.4 mi away

6%92

Birmingham2.9 mi away

5%86

Auburn Hills6.5 mi away

4%70

Farmington Hills9.3 mi away

4%56

Royal Oak6.9 mi away

3%52

Dearborn18.6 mi away

3%49

Bloomfield1.4 mi away

3%49

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%690

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

How far

How far Bloomfield Hills commutes

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

53%

32%

53%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bloomfield Hills is a job hub

4.32jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bloomfield Hills are

6,808 jobs are based in Bloomfield Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bloomfield Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bloomfield Hills

6,808 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)90%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Bloomfield Hills residents hold

1,576 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+9%

Jobs based in Bloomfield Hills, 2011 → 2021: 6,265 → 6,808. 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.