Work & commute · East Tawas

Work & commute in East Tawas, MI

Most working residents leave East Tawas for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Tawas City (16%), Baldwin (8%) and Tawas (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

77 of 835 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 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 758 East Tawas residents head out of town to work, 77 work right here, and 490 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Tawas.

758live here, work elsewhere

77live and work here

490work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Tawas goes to work

Tawas City2.5 mi away

16%134

East Tawas (in town)right here

9%77

Baldwin2.1 mi away

8%65

Tawas5.4 mi away

5%44

Oscoda12.3 mi away

4%34

Au Sable8.4 mi away

2%19

Alpena55.4 mi away

2%18

Sherman12.3 mi away

2%13

West Branch37.3 mi away

1%11

Midland59.2 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%409

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

How far

How far East Tawas commutes

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

40%

12%

41%

40%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

41%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Tawas is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East Tawas are

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

Jobs based in East Tawas

567 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month27%

Jobs East Tawas residents hold

835 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month45%

+14%

Jobs based in East Tawas, 2011 → 2021: 497 → 567. 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.