Work & commute · Harbor Springs

Work & commute in Harbor Springs, MI

Most working residents leave Harbor Springs for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Petoskey (16%), Bear Creek (12%) and Little Traverse (9%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

48 of 459 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 411 Harbor Springs residents head out of town to work, 48 work right here, and 751 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Harbor Springs.

411live here, work elsewhere

48live and work here

751work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Harbor Springs goes to work

Petoskey4.8 mi away

16%75

Bear Creek6.9 mi away

12%55

Harbor Springs (in town)right here

10%48

Little Traverse3.9 mi away

9%43

Pleasantview6.4 mi away

6%28

West Traverse2.8 mi away

5%21

Friendship6.1 mi away

4%18

Resort7.2 mi away

4%17

Boyne Valley20.6 mi away

2%8

Traverse City55.6 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%139

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

How far

How far Harbor Springs commutes

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

67%

23%

67%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Harbor Springs is a job hub

1.74jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Harbor Springs are

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

Jobs based in Harbor Springs

799 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Harbor Springs residents hold

459 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+13%

Jobs based in Harbor Springs, 2011 → 2021: 708 → 799. 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.