Work & commute · La Salle

Work & commute in La Salle, MI

Most working residents leave La Salle for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Monroe (12%), Toledo (12%) and Frenchtown (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26 of 2,014 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 1,988 La Salle residents head out of town to work, 26 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Salle.

1,988live here, work elsewhere

26live and work here

57work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Salle goes to work

Monroe6.3 mi away

12%248

Toledo, OH14.4 mi away

12%244

Frenchtown9.4 mi away

6%112

Monroe3.7 mi away

5%110

Dearborn34.3 mi away

3%65

Bedford8.5 mi away

3%65

Ann Arbor31.7 mi away

3%64

Detroit41.1 mi away

3%64

Livonia37.7 mi away

2%43

Erie5.8 mi away

2%41

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%958

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

How far

How far La Salle commutes

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

29%

28%

29%

14%

29%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Salle is a commuter town

0.04jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Salle are

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

Jobs based in La Salle

83 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities41%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs La Salle residents hold

2,014 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

−62%

Jobs based in La Salle, 2011 → 2021: 217 → 83. 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.