Work & commute · Mottville

Work & commute in Mottville, MI

Most working residents leave Mottville for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Elkhart (12%), White Pigeon (7%) and Middlebury (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 638 working residents

Typical commute

14 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 613 Mottville residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 381 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mottville.

613live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

381work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mottville goes to work

Elkhart, IN14.6 mi away

12%78

White Pigeon6 mi away

7%47

Middlebury, IN8.1 mi away

6%38

Sturgis15.1 mi away

5%35

York, IN4.1 mi away

5%30

Mottville (in town)right here

4%25

Three Rivers11.7 mi away

4%23

Goshen, IN16 mi away

3%19

Bristol, IN8.1 mi away

3%18

Shipshewana, IN10.5 mi away

3%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%308

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

How far

How far Mottville commutes

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

29%

42%

11%

19%

29%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mottville is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mottville are

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

Jobs based in Mottville

406 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)66%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)25%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Mottville residents hold

638 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)45%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−44%

Jobs based in Mottville, 2011 → 2021: 731 → 406. 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.