Work & commute · Mendon

Work & commute in Mendon, MI

Most working residents leave Mendon for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Portage (7%), Three Rivers (7%) and Sturgis (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

127 of 1,158 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 1,031 Mendon residents head out of town to work, 127 work right here, and 714 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mendon.

1,031live here, work elsewhere

127live and work here

714work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mendon goes to work

Mendon (in town)right here

11%127

Portage13.2 mi away

7%85

Three Rivers9.9 mi away

7%80

Sturgis16.1 mi away

6%64

Kalamazoo18.1 mi away

5%60

Schoolcraft8.2 mi away

3%38

Nottawa6.4 mi away

3%32

Lockport8.6 mi away

2%24

Coldwater25 mi away

2%23

Colon8.3 mi away

2%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%602

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

How far

How far Mendon commutes

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

26%

41%

11%

21%

26%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mendon is a commuter town

0.73jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mendon are

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

Jobs based in Mendon

841 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)78%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)17%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Mendon residents hold

1,158 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−43%

Jobs based in Mendon, 2011 → 2021: 1,480 → 841. 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.