Work & commute · Mentor

Work & commute in Mentor, MI

Most working residents leave Mentor for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Comins (12%), Big Creek (11%) and Elmer (6%). Half commute less than 39 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

29 of 285 working residents

Typical commute

39 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 256 Mentor residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 200 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mentor.

256live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

200work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mentor goes to work

Comins9 mi away

12%33

Big Creek11.7 mi away

11%32

Mentor (in town)right here

10%29

Elmer12.7 mi away

6%16

Midland68.7 mi away

2%7

Lansing133.6 mi away

2%7

Greenwood18.3 mi away

2%6

Petoskey71.5 mi away

2%5

Ypsilanti166.7 mi away

2%5

Au Sable34.8 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%141

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

How far

How far Mentor commutes

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

33%

10%

15%

43%

33%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mentor is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mentor are

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

Jobs based in Mentor

229 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Mentor residents hold

285 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month37%

+183%

Jobs based in Mentor, 2011 → 2021: 81 → 229. 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.