Work & commute · Lockport

Work & commute in Lockport, MI

Most working residents leave Lockport for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Three Rivers (18%), Kalamazoo (5%) and Portage (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 1,677 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 1,650 Lockport residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 601 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lockport.

1,650live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

601work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lockport goes to work

Three Rivers2.6 mi away

18%309

Kalamazoo23.7 mi away

5%83

Portage18.3 mi away

4%68

Sturgis12.5 mi away

4%59

Nottawa5.3 mi away

3%58

Elkhart, IN25.7 mi away

3%55

Constantine8.4 mi away

3%46

Middlebury, IN19.2 mi away

2%40

Mendon8.6 mi away

2%36

Park6.1 mi away

2%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%889

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

How far

How far Lockport commutes

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

33%

30%

19%

18%

33%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lockport is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lockport are

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

Jobs based in Lockport

628 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)82%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Lockport residents hold

1,677 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+77%

Jobs based in Lockport, 2011 → 2021: 354 → 628. 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.