Work & commute · Nashville

Work & commute in Nashville, MI

Most working residents leave Nashville for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Hastings (8%), Odessa (5%) and Grand Rapids (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 568 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 552 Nashville residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Nashville.

552live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

204work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Nashville goes to work

Hastings10.4 mi away

8%48

Odessa14.3 mi away

5%30

Grand Rapids37.7 mi away

5%29

Thornapple21.9 mi away

4%22

Castleton3.3 mi away

4%21

Hastings7.8 mi away

4%20

Charlotte13.6 mi away

3%18

Ionia25.8 mi away

3%16

Battle Creek22.1 mi away

2%14

Woodland8.8 mi away

2%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%338

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

How far

How far Nashville commutes

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

11%

39%

32%

18%

11%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Nashville is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Nashville are

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

Jobs based in Nashville

220 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less35%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Nashville residents hold

568 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+11%

Jobs based in Nashville, 2011 → 2021: 198 → 220. 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.