Work & commute · Brockway

Work & commute in Brockway, MI

Most working residents leave Brockway for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Yale (10%), Port Huron (8%) and Warren (3%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 755 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

41 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 748 Brockway residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 96 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brockway.

748live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

96work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brockway goes to work

Yale1.3 mi away

10%75

Port Huron20.7 mi away

8%62

Warren44.1 mi away

3%24

Detroit52.5 mi away

3%24

Clinton36.5 mi away

3%21

Auburn Hills37.3 mi away

3%20

Sterling Heights38.3 mi away

3%20

Imlay City15 mi away

2%18

Bruce21.8 mi away

2%16

Shelby32.4 mi away

2%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%459

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

How far

How far Brockway commutes

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

16%

29%

36%

20%

16%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

36%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brockway is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brockway are

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

Jobs based in Brockway

103 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Brockway residents hold

755 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−38%

Jobs based in Brockway, 2011 → 2021: 165 → 103. 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.