Work & commute · Clare

Work & commute in Clare, MI

Most working residents leave Clare for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Pleasant (10%), Grant (7%) and Midland (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

187 of 1,124 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 937 Clare residents head out of town to work, 187 work right here, and 1,744 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Clare.

937live here, work elsewhere

187live and work here

1,744work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Clare goes to work

Clare (in town)right here

17%187

Mount Pleasant15.9 mi away

10%113

Grant3 mi away

7%74

Midland29.9 mi away

6%68

Chippewa17.1 mi away

4%45

Hatton8.2 mi away

3%34

Union17.5 mi away

3%32

Surrey7.7 mi away

2%27

Vernon5.1 mi away

2%23

Gladwin17.5 mi away

2%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%504

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

How far

How far Clare commutes

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

31%

27%

18%

24%

31%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Clare is a job hub

1.72jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Clare are

1,931 jobs are based in Clare. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Clare’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Clare

1,931 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Clare residents hold

1,124 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−31%

Jobs based in Clare, 2011 → 2021: 2,815 → 1,931. 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.