Work & commute · Hastings

Work & commute in Hastings, MI

Most working residents leave Hastings for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Hastings (20%), Grand Rapids (6%) and Thornapple (6%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

64 of 1,276 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 1,212 Hastings residents head out of town to work, 64 work right here, and 564 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hastings.

1,212live here, work elsewhere

64live and work here

564work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hastings goes to work

Hastings2.6 mi away

20%254

Grand Rapids30.9 mi away

6%79

Thornapple14.2 mi away

6%71

Hastings (in town)right here

5%64

Rutland6.6 mi away

5%61

Kentwood24.9 mi away

4%49

Cascade22.3 mi away

4%45

Wyoming29.5 mi away

3%35

Battle Creek23 mi away

3%35

Caledonia17.1 mi away

2%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%555

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

How far

How far Hastings commutes

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

32%

25%

29%

14%

32%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hastings is a commuter town

0.49jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.49 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Hastings are

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

Jobs based in Hastings

628 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Hastings residents hold

1,276 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+84%

Jobs based in Hastings, 2011 → 2021: 341 → 628. 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.