Work & commute · Lovells

Work & commute in Lovells, MI

Most working residents leave Lovells for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Grayling (15%), Grayling (9%) and Gaylord (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 169 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 167 Lovells residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 41 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lovells.

167live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

41work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lovells goes to work

Grayling15.2 mi away

15%25

Grayling11.7 mi away

9%16

Gaylord19.6 mi away

5%9

Higgins26.1 mi away

4%7

Frederic16.7 mi away

4%6

Garfield57.9 mi away

4%6

Traverse City56.2 mi away

3%5

Albert12.8 mi away

3%5

Beaver Creek20.1 mi away

2%4

Denton36.1 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%82

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

How far

How far Lovells commutes

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

48%

12%

38%

2%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

38%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lovells is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lovells are

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

Jobs based in Lovells

43 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities63%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less44%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Lovells residents hold

169 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month43%

+187%

Jobs based in Lovells, 2011 → 2021: 15 → 43. 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.