Work & commute · Marquette

Work & commute in Marquette, MI

Most working residents leave Marquette for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (14%), Clark (12%) and St. Ignace (9%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 166 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 164 Marquette residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Marquette.

164live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

36work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Marquette goes to work

Sault Ste. Marie28.9 mi away

14%24

Clark10.6 mi away

12%20

St. Ignace15.8 mi away

9%15

Rudyard10.5 mi away

5%8

Garfield46.2 mi away

5%8

Pickford12.2 mi away

3%5

McMillan55.2 mi away

3%5

Pentland44.5 mi away

3%5

Soo22.5 mi away

3%5

Iron Mountain169.6 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%67

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

How far

How far Marquette commutes

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

13%

26%

25%

37%

13%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Marquette is a commuter town

0.23jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Marquette are

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

Jobs based in Marquette

38 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)82%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs Marquette residents hold

166 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month40%

+100%

Jobs based in Marquette, 2011 → 2021: 19 → 38. 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.