Work & commute · Madison Heights

Work & commute in Madison Heights, MI

Most working residents leave Madison Heights for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Detroit (11%), Troy (11%) and Warren (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

847 of 12,691 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,844 Madison Heights residents head out of town to work, 847 work right here, and 19,668 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Madison Heights.

11,844live here, work elsewhere

847live and work here

19,668work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Madison Heights goes to work

Detroit8.6 mi away

11%1,441

Troy5.7 mi away

11%1,382

Warren4.1 mi away

7%919

Madison Heights (in town)right here

7%847

Royal Oak2.6 mi away

5%640

Southfield8.3 mi away

5%619

Sterling Heights6.3 mi away

4%453

Farmington Hills14 mi away

3%391

Auburn Hills13.6 mi away

3%355

Dearborn14.5 mi away

3%354

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%5,290

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

How far

How far Madison Heights commutes

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

52%

38%

52%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Madison Heights is a job hub

1.62jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Madison Heights are

20,515 jobs are based in Madison Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Madison Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Madison Heights

20,515 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Madison Heights residents hold

12,691 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−5%

Jobs based in Madison Heights, 2011 → 2021: 21,520 → 20,515. 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.