Work & commute · Brady

Work & commute in Brady, MI

Most working residents leave Brady for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Chesaning (14%), Saginaw (7%) and Owosso (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29 of 723 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 694 Brady residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brady.

694live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

148work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brady goes to work

Chesaning5.9 mi away

14%101

Saginaw22 mi away

7%54

Owosso12 mi away

6%41

Saginaw22 mi away

5%38

Brady (in town)right here

4%29

Owosso11.5 mi away

3%25

Midland31.8 mi away

3%19

St. Charles8.7 mi away

2%18

Caledonia12.9 mi away

2%17

Duplain12 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%366

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

How far

How far Brady commutes

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

25%

39%

18%

19%

25%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brady is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brady are

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

Jobs based in Brady

177 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Brady residents hold

723 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+40%

Jobs based in Brady, 2011 → 2021: 126 → 177. 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.