Work & commute · Gobles

Work & commute in Gobles, MI

Most working residents leave Gobles for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Bloomingdale (7%), Kalamazoo (6%) and Allegan (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 287 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 277 Gobles residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 343 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Gobles.

277live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

343work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Gobles goes to work

Bloomingdale2.7 mi away

7%20

Kalamazoo15.9 mi away

6%16

Allegan11.9 mi away

5%14

Kalamazoo13.6 mi away

5%14

Portage18.5 mi away

5%13

Antwerp11.4 mi away

5%13

Gobles (in town)right here

3%10

Paw Paw11.7 mi away

3%9

Holland30.2 mi away

3%8

Oshtemo10.2 mi away

3%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%162

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

How far

How far Gobles commutes

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

20%

47%

16%

17%

20%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Gobles is balanced between jobs and homes

1.23jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Gobles are

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

Jobs based in Gobles

353 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Gobles residents hold

287 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+123%

Jobs based in Gobles, 2011 → 2021: 158 → 353. 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.