Work & commute · Dafter

Work & commute in Dafter, MI

Most working residents leave Dafter for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (38%), Kinross (11%) and Bay Mills (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 435 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 428 Dafter residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dafter.

428live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

194work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dafter goes to work

Sault Ste. Marie8.6 mi away

38%167

Kinross11.8 mi away

11%47

Bay Mills17 mi away

7%31

Soo13.9 mi away

5%21

Rudyard13.2 mi away

4%18

St. Ignace35.6 mi away

2%8

Pickford13.8 mi away

2%8

Dafter (in town)right here

2%7

Clark24.6 mi away

2%7

Superior11.1 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%114

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

How far

How far Dafter commutes

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

50%

24%

22%

50%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dafter is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Dafter are

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

Jobs based in Dafter

201 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities91%

Services (health, schools, offices…)9%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Dafter residents hold

435 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−89%

Jobs based in Dafter, 2011 → 2021: 1,838 → 201. 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.