Work & commute · Friendship

Work & commute in Friendship, MI

Most working residents leave Friendship for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Petoskey (11%), Harbor Springs (10%) and West Traverse (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 287 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 271 Friendship residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 250 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Friendship.

271live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

250work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Friendship goes to work

Petoskey10.3 mi away

11%33

Harbor Springs6.1 mi away

10%30

West Traverse4.4 mi away

8%23

Pleasantview6.7 mi away

7%19

Friendship (in town)right here

6%16

Bear Creek12.9 mi away

5%15

Little Traverse8.1 mi away

5%15

Readmond4.2 mi away

3%8

Charlevoix17.3 mi away

2%6

Traverse City59.2 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%116

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

How far

How far Friendship commutes

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

44%

24%

28%

44%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Friendship is balanced between jobs and homes

0.93jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Friendship are

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

Jobs based in Friendship

266 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Friendship residents hold

287 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month50%

+237%

Jobs based in Friendship, 2011 → 2021: 79 → 266. 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.