Work & commute · Grant

Work & commute in Grant, MI

Most working residents leave Grant for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Clare (12%), Mount Pleasant (10%) and Midland (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

56 of 1,113 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 1,057 Grant residents head out of town to work, 56 work right here, and 1,075 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grant.

1,057live here, work elsewhere

56live and work here

1,075work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Grant goes to work

Clare3 mi away

12%132

Mount Pleasant18.4 mi away

10%112

Midland32.5 mi away

5%61

Grant (in town)right here

5%56

Surrey5.8 mi away

5%53

Chippewa20 mi away

4%43

Union19.9 mi away

3%36

Hatton5.4 mi away

3%29

Harrison10.1 mi away

3%28

Evart23.9 mi away

2%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%540

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

How far

How far Grant commutes

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

27%

29%

15%

29%

27%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Grant is balanced between jobs and homes

1.02jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Grant are

1,131 jobs are based in Grant. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grant’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Grant

1,131 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities52%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Grant residents hold

1,113 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+398%

Jobs based in Grant, 2011 → 2021: 227 → 1,131. 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.