Work & commute · Mackinaw

Work & commute in Mackinaw, MI

Most working residents leave Mackinaw for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Cheboygan (10%), Petoskey (9%) and Mackinaw (9%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

30 of 256 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 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 226 Mackinaw residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mackinaw.

226live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

535work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mackinaw goes to work

Cheboygan17 mi away

10%26

Petoskey31.5 mi away

9%23

Mackinaw4 mi away

9%23

Wawatam3.6 mi away

4%11

St. Ignace7.2 mi away

3%7

Traverse City82.2 mi away

2%6

Harbor Springs26.8 mi away

2%5

Little Traverse25 mi away

2%5

McKinley13.7 mi away

2%5

Moran20.1 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%140

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

How far

How far Mackinaw commutes

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

20%

22%

24%

34%

20%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mackinaw is a job hub

2.21jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mackinaw are

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

Jobs based in Mackinaw

565 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Mackinaw residents hold

256 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−11%

Jobs based in Mackinaw, 2011 → 2021: 637 → 565. 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.