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Work & commute · Mendon

Work & commute in Mendon, MI

Most working residents leave Mendon for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Mendon (12%), Sturgis (8%) and Portage (7%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
10%
39 of 387 working residents
Typical commute
17 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
32 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
6%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 348 Mendon residents head out of town to work, 39 work right here, and 474 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mendon.

348live here, work elsewhere
39live and work here
474work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Mendon goes to work

ElkhartMendonThree RiversSturgisKalamazooBattle CreekPortageLockportLeonidasMendonNottawaParkKalamazooColonSchoolcraftMendonSturgisPortageThree RiversElkhartKalamazooSchoolcraftKalamazooBattle CreekNottawaMendon
1
Mendon1.6 mi away
12%47
2
Sturgis14.6 mi away
8%31
3
Portage14.8 mi away
7%28
4
Three Rivers10 mi away
6%23
5
Elkhart, IN34.1 mi away
3%11
6
Kalamazoo19.7 mi away
3%11
7
Schoolcraft9.9 mi away
3%11
8
Kalamazoo22.7 mi away
3%10
9
Battle Creek23.1 mi away
2%9
10
Nottawa5.2 mi away
2%8
Everywhere elseother towns and states
51%198

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.

25%Under 10 mi
42%10–24 mi
10%25–50 mi
22%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Mendon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.33jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mendon are

513 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

513 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)74%
Trade, transport & utilities4%
Services (health, schools, offices…)22%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month51%
Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Mendon residents hold

387 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)41%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)43%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month30%
Over $3,333 a month57%
−64%

Jobs based in Mendon, 2011 → 2021: 1,413 → 513. 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.

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