Work & commute · Mills

Work & commute in Mills, MI

Most working residents leave Mills for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are West Branch (10%), West Branch (7%) and Standish (5%). Half commute less than 40 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

48 of 1,168 working residents

Typical commute

40 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,120 Mills residents head out of town to work, 48 work right here, and 83 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mills.

1,120live here, work elsewhere

48live and work here

83work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mills goes to work

West Branch9.9 mi away

10%114

West Branch8.5 mi away

7%77

Standish16.2 mi away

5%62

Mills (in town)right here

4%48

Churchill6.6 mi away

2%26

Tawas City27.2 mi away

2%22

Midland40.7 mi away

2%21

Mount Pleasant54.7 mi away

1%17

Bay City43.1 mi away

1%16

Bangor38.9 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%749

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

How far

How far Mills commutes

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

18%

23%

16%

42%

18%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

42%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mills is a commuter town

0.11jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mills are

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

Jobs based in Mills

131 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities52%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month56%

Over $3,333 a month10%

Jobs Mills residents hold

1,168 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month39%

+11%

Jobs based in Mills, 2011 → 2021: 118 → 131. 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.