99% of Level Park-Oak Park’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Level Park-Oak Park for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Battle Creek (35%), Emmett (4%) and Bedford (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.
What kind of work town is Level Park-Oak Park?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
35% of working residents work in Battle Creek
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Level Park-Oak Park clocks in
35% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
39% of Level Park-Oak Park works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Battle Creek (35%). Darker towns draw more of Level Park-Oak Park’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Level Park-Oak Park workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Level Park-Oak Park quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,257 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 96 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Level Park-Oak Park on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.09 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
Half of Level Park-Oak Park commutes less than 10 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 16% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
What the 111 jobs in Level Park-Oak Park are
111 jobs are based in Level Park-Oak Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Level Park-Oak Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Level Park-Oak Park, 2011 → 2021: 133 → 111. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Level Park-Oak Park
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Level Park-Oak Park, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.