Work & commute · Lake Orion

Work & commute in Lake Orion, MI

Most working residents leave Lake Orion for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Orion (13%), Auburn Hills (9%) and Troy (9%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

107 of 1,417 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,310 Lake Orion residents head out of town to work, 107 work right here, and 2,305 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Orion.

1,310live here, work elsewhere

107live and work here

2,305work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Orion goes to work

Orion2.1 mi away

13%181

Auburn Hills7.6 mi away

9%130

Troy14.7 mi away

9%121

Oxford4.8 mi away

4%54

Rochester Hills9.4 mi away

4%51

Detroit28.7 mi away

4%50

Pontiac9.6 mi away

3%48

Sterling Heights17.8 mi away

3%44

Southfield21.4 mi away

3%39

Shelby13.1 mi away

3%36

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%663

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

How far

How far Lake Orion commutes

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

32%

46%

14%

32%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Orion is a job hub

1.70jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Orion are

2,412 jobs are based in Lake Orion. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Orion’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Orion

2,412 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Lake Orion residents hold

1,417 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+26%

Jobs based in Lake Orion, 2011 → 2021: 1,917 → 2,412. 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.