Work & commute · Honor

Work & commute in Honor, MI

Most working residents leave Honor for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Traverse City (21%), Benzonia (10%) and Garfield (9%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 115 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 111 Honor residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 169 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Honor.

111live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

169work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Honor goes to work

Traverse City21.3 mi away

21%24

Benzonia4.8 mi away

10%11

Garfield19.4 mi away

9%10

Frankfort10.6 mi away

8%9

Homestead2.3 mi away

7%8

Glen Arbor24.1 mi away

4%5

Bear Lake20.5 mi away

3%3

Weldon7.3 mi away

3%3

Kentwood124.9 mi away

2%2

Empire10.5 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%38

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

How far

How far Honor commutes

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

23%

55%

19%

23%Under 10 mi

55%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Honor is a job hub

1.50jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Honor are

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

Jobs based in Honor

173 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Honor residents hold

115 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−1%

Jobs based in Honor, 2011 → 2021: 174 → 173. 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.