Work & commute · Crystal Falls

Work & commute in Crystal Falls, MI

Most working residents leave Crystal Falls for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Crystal Falls (18%), Iron River (10%) and Iron Mountain (8%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

72 of 607 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 535 Crystal Falls residents head out of town to work, 72 work right here, and 349 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crystal Falls.

535live here, work elsewhere

72live and work here

349work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crystal Falls goes to work

Crystal Falls11.1 mi away

18%107

Crystal Falls (in town)right here

12%72

Iron River18.8 mi away

10%63

Iron Mountain31.7 mi away

8%50

Kingsford32.4 mi away

5%33

Breitung30 mi away

3%21

Hematite10.1 mi away

3%19

Marquette48.3 mi away

3%18

Mastodon16.3 mi away

2%13

Iron River22.8 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%198

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

How far

How far Crystal Falls commutes

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

34%

31%

14%

21%

34%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crystal Falls is a commuter town

0.69jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Crystal Falls are

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

Jobs based in Crystal Falls

421 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Crystal Falls residents hold

607 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+528%

Jobs based in Crystal Falls, 2011 → 2021: 67 → 421. 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.