96% of Harvey’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Harvey for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Marquette (43%), Ishpeming (6%) and Chocolay (5%). Half commute less than 7 miles.
What kind of work town is Harvey?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
51% of Harvey works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Marquette (43%). Darker towns draw more of Harvey’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
43% of working residents work in Marquette
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Harvey clocks in
43% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harvey workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Half of Harvey commutes less than 7 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
Harvey quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,304 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 522 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Harvey on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.42 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
What the 573 jobs in Harvey are
573 jobs are based in Harvey. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Harvey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harvey, 2011 → 2021: 1,966 → 573. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Harvey
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harvey, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.