Work & commute · Laurium

Work & commute in Laurium, MI

Most working residents leave Laurium for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Calumet (32%), Houghton (18%) and Hancock (13%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

57 of 680 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

14 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 623 Laurium residents head out of town to work, 57 work right here, and 359 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Laurium.

623live here, work elsewhere

57live and work here

359work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Laurium goes to work

Calumet1.6 mi away

32%215

Houghton10.5 mi away

18%119

Hancock10.1 mi away

13%91

Franklin6.9 mi away

3%22

Portage20.6 mi away

3%21

Schoolcraft7.4 mi away

2%15

Baraga34.5 mi away

2%14

Marquette68.3 mi away

2%13

Torch Lake10.1 mi away

1%10

Chocolay77.3 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%151

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

How far

How far Laurium commutes

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

56%

21%

19%

56%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Laurium is a commuter town

0.61jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Laurium are

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

Jobs based in Laurium

416 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)94%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Laurium residents hold

680 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month43%

+253%

Jobs based in Laurium, 2011 → 2021: 118 → 416. 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.