Work & commute · Monitor

Work & commute in Monitor, MI

Most working residents leave Monitor for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Bay City (16%), Midland (10%) and Saginaw (9%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

260 of 4,044 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,784 Monitor residents head out of town to work, 260 work right here, and 4,042 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Monitor.

3,784live here, work elsewhere

260live and work here

4,042work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Monitor goes to work

Bay City5.2 mi away

16%639

Midland12.2 mi away

10%419

Saginaw13.3 mi away

9%361

Monitor (in town)right here

6%260

Saginaw11.1 mi away

6%236

Bangor5.6 mi away

4%176

Kochville7.1 mi away

3%105

Buena Vista12.5 mi away

2%80

Hampton10.9 mi away

2%67

Frankenlust4.9 mi away

2%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%1,636

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

How far

How far Monitor commutes

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

42%

29%

21%

42%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Monitor is balanced between jobs and homes

1.06jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Monitor are

4,302 jobs are based in Monitor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Monitor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Monitor

4,302 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Monitor residents hold

4,044 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+26%

Jobs based in Monitor, 2011 → 2021: 3,418 → 4,302. 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.