Work & commute · Monroe

Work & commute in Monroe, MI

Most working residents leave Monroe for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Monroe (15%), Frenchtown (8%) and Toledo (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

489 of 5,700 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 5,211 Monroe residents head out of town to work, 489 work right here, and 3,821 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Monroe.

5,211live here, work elsewhere

489live and work here

3,821work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Monroe goes to work

Monroe2.6 mi away

15%840

Monroe (in town)right here

9%489

Frenchtown5.8 mi away

8%446

Toledo, OH17.8 mi away

5%293

Ann Arbor30.8 mi away

4%212

Detroit37.7 mi away

4%209

Dearborn31 mi away

3%172

Romulus22.9 mi away

2%121

Bedford12.1 mi away

2%113

Livonia34.9 mi away

2%93

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%2,712

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

How far

How far Monroe commutes

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

33%

23%

31%

13%

33%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Monroe is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Monroe are

4,310 jobs are based in Monroe. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Monroe’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Monroe

4,310 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Monroe residents hold

5,700 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−35%

Jobs based in Monroe, 2011 → 2021: 6,606 → 4,310. 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.