Work & commute · Lawton

Work & commute in Lawton, MI

Most working residents leave Lawton for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Antwerp (20%), Kalamazoo (11%) and Portage (8%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

84 of 820 working residents

Typical commute

16 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 736 Lawton residents head out of town to work, 84 work right here, and 574 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lawton.

736live here, work elsewhere

84live and work here

574work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lawton goes to work

Antwerp3.1 mi away

20%168

Kalamazoo15.2 mi away

11%91

Portage13.2 mi away

8%63

Paw Paw5.3 mi away

7%58

Texas7.8 mi away

4%30

Battle Creek32.9 mi away

3%21

Comstock21 mi away

3%21

Oshtemo11 mi away

2%20

Kalamazoo15.4 mi away

2%18

Schoolcraft13.9 mi away

2%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%314

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

How far

How far Lawton commutes

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

32%

37%

13%

18%

32%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lawton is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lawton are

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

Jobs based in Lawton

658 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Lawton residents hold

820 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−6%

Jobs based in Lawton, 2011 → 2021: 699 → 658. 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.