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Work & commute · Lake Odessa

Work & commute in Lake Odessa, MI

Most working residents leave Lake Odessa for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Odessa (17%), Grand Rapids (9%) and Kentwood (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
11%
84 of 773 working residents
Typical commute
23 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
26 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
13%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 689 Lake Odessa residents head out of town to work, 84 work right here, and 792 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Odessa.

689live here, work elsewhere
84live and work here
792work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Lake Odessa goes to work

Lake OdessaPortlandIoniaHastingsWyomingKentwoodGrand RapidsLansingSebewaWoodlandVermontvilleSunfieldIrvingCastletonBostonCampbellCascadeOdessaOdessaGrand RapidsKentwoodLansingCascadeIoniaPortlandHastingsBostonWyomingLake Odessa
1
Odessa1.7 mi away
17%128
2
Grand Rapids29 mi away
9%70
3
Kentwood24.1 mi away
4%31
4
Lansing29.6 mi away
3%27
5
Cascade19.6 mi away
3%25
6
Ionia13.8 mi away
3%22
7
Portland13.5 mi away
2%16
8
Hastings12 mi away
2%16
9
Boston9.7 mi away
2%16
10
Wyoming29.8 mi away
2%14
Everywhere elseother towns and states
53%408

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

How far

How far Lake Odessa commutes

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

22%Under 10 mi
32%10–24 mi
28%25–50 mi
18%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Odessa is balanced between jobs and homes

1.13jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Odessa are

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

Jobs based in Lake Odessa

876 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)33%
Trade, transport & utilities25%
Services (health, schools, offices…)41%
$1,250 a month or less21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month37%
Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Lake Odessa residents hold

773 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)31%
Trade, transport & utilities21%
Services (health, schools, offices…)48%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%
Over $3,333 a month54%
+38%

Jobs based in Lake Odessa, 2011 → 2021: 635 → 876. 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.

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