Work & commute · Cheboygan

Work & commute in Cheboygan, MI

About one in 4 of Cheboygan’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Inverness (5%), Mackinaw (5%) and Petoskey (4%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

24%

399 of 1,633 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 1,234 Cheboygan residents head out of town to work, 399 work right here, and 1,660 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cheboygan.

1,234live here, work elsewhere

399live and work here

1,660work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cheboygan goes to work

Cheboygan (in town)right here

24%399

Inverness5.2 mi away

5%85

Mackinaw13.1 mi away

5%74

Petoskey32.5 mi away

4%65

Gaylord44.3 mi away

3%42

St. Ignace21.2 mi away

2%36

Bear Creek29.1 mi away

2%33

Alpena63.4 mi away

2%31

Traverse City82.5 mi away

2%26

Alpena64.6 mi away

1%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%818

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

How far

How far Cheboygan commutes

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

32%

16%

37%

32%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cheboygan is balanced between jobs and homes

1.26jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cheboygan are

2,059 jobs are based in Cheboygan. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cheboygan’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cheboygan

2,059 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Cheboygan residents hold

1,633 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month37%

−12%

Jobs based in Cheboygan, 2011 → 2021: 2,346 → 2,059. 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.