Work & commute · Day

Work & commute in Day, MI

Most working residents leave Day for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Home (10%), Stanton (5%) and Greenville (5%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 427 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 421 Day residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Day.

421live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

70work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Day goes to work

Home6.6 mi away

10%41

Stanton4.8 mi away

5%22

Greenville16.5 mi away

5%22

Alma18.4 mi away

5%21

Mount Pleasant21.2 mi away

4%17

Lansing49.1 mi away

4%17

Sidney9.2 mi away

4%15

Kentwood43 mi away

3%12

Union18.9 mi away

3%11

Grand Rapids41.7 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%240

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

How far

How far Day commutes

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

24%

31%

24%

21%

24%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Day is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Day are

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

Jobs based in Day

76 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)79%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)8%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month53%

Over $3,333 a month18%

Jobs Day residents hold

427 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−30%

Jobs based in Day, 2011 → 2021: 109 → 76. 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.