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Work & commute in Manitou Beach-Devils Lake · A commuter town

97% of Manitou Beach-Devils Lake’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Manitou Beach-Devils Lake for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Adrian (9%), Jackson (9%) and Woodstock (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Work in town
3%
26 of 776 working residents
Typical commute
19 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
33 min
More than MI (24 min)
Work from home
8%
Less than MI (14%)
Jobs based here
166
A commuter town
Work out of state
18%
of workers

What kind of work town is Manitou Beach-Devils Lake?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

9% of working residents work in Adrian

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Hudson: 25 residents work here (3%)Adrian: 72 residents work here (9%)Jackson: 69 residents work here (9%)Ann Arbor: 22 residents work here (3%)AdrianWoodstock: 34 residents work here (4%)Madison: 23 residents work here (3%)Blackman: 24 residents work here (3%)LibertyRomeColumbia: 26 residents work here (3%)Rollin: 28 residents work here (4%)Raisin: 22 residents work here (3%)SomersetManitou Beach-Devils LakeAdrianJacksonWoodstockRollinColumbiaHudsonManitou Beach-Devils Lake
1
Adrian14.2 mi away
9%72
2
Jackson18.9 mi away
9%69
3
Woodstock3.3 mi away
4%34
4
Rollin3.1 mi away
4%28
5
Columbia8.4 mi away
3%26
6
Hudson8.9 mi away
3%25
7
Blackman22.8 mi away
3%24
8
Madison14.5 mi away
3%23
9
Ann Arbor35.5 mi away
3%22
10
Raisin18.3 mi away
3%22
Everywhere elseother towns and states
56%431
The top trips

Where Manitou Beach-Devils Lake clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of Michigan

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
253 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Manitou Beach-Devils Lake33 min
Michigan24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
8%

of Manitou Beach-Devils Lake workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Manitou Beach-Devils Lake quiets down on a workday

On a workday 750 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 140 people come in from elsewhere.

750live here, work elsewhere
26live and work here
140work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night2,100
Workday1,500
2,100live here− 750head out to work+ 140come in to work= 1,500on a workday

About 1,500 people are in Manitou Beach-Devils Lake on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.21jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.21 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.

How far

Half of Manitou Beach-Devils Lake commutes less than 19 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi40 miAdrian: 9% · 14.2 miJackson: 9% · 18.9 miWoodstock: 4% · 3.3 miRollin: 4% · 3.1 miColumbia: 3% · 8.4 miHudson: 3% · 8.9 miBlackman: 3% · 22.8 miMadison: 3% · 14.5 miAnn Arbor: 3% · 35.5 miRaisin: 3% · 18.3 miAdrian 9%Jackson 9%Woodstock 4%Rollin 4%Columbia 3%Manitou Beach-Devils Lake
Manitou Beach-Devils LakeTop destinations (size = commuters)
16%Under 10 mi128 residents
44%10–24 mi344 residents
20%25–50 mi155 residents
19%Over 50 mi149 residents

About 19% 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.

The jobs

What the 166 jobs in Manitou Beach-Devils Lake are

166 jobs are based in Manitou Beach-Devils Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Manitou Beach-Devils Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Manitou Beach-Devils LakeJobs Manitou Beach-Devils Lake residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms12%26%
Trade, transport & utilities25%20%
Services: health, schools, offices63%54%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less37%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month45%30%
Over $3,333 a month18%55%

Who does it

29 or younger30%22%
30 to 5438%49%
55 and older32%30%
+144%

Jobs based in Manitou Beach-Devils Lake, 2011 → 2021: 68 → 166. 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.

Next door

Manitou Beach-Devils Lake and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Rollin (4%). Darker towns draw more of Manitou Beach-Devils Lake’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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