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Work & commute in Naubinway · Balanced

91% of Naubinway’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Naubinway for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are McMillan (16%), Garfield (13%) and Pentland (9%). Half commute less than 34 miles.

Work in town
9%
3 of 32 working residents
Typical commute
34 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
16 min
Less than MI (24 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than MI (14%)
Jobs based here
37
Balanced

What kind of work town is Naubinway?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Time on the road

About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
126 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Naubinway16 min
Michigan24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Naubinway workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
Next door

13% of Naubinway works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Garfield (13%). Darker towns draw more of Naubinway’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 29 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.

29live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
34work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night100
Workday110
100live here− 29head out to work+ 34come in to work= 110on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
1.16jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.

The commute map

16% of working residents work in McMillan

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

St. Ignace: 2 residents work here (6%)Houghton: 1 residents work here (3%)Mackinac IslandMenomineeTraverse City: 1 residents work here (3%)Norway: 1 residents work here (3%)Wixom: 1 residents work here (3%)Marquette: 2 residents work here (6%)EscanabaSault Ste. MarieHayesMcMillan: 5 residents work here (16%)Pentland: 3 residents work here (9%)NewtonGarfield: 4 residents work here (13%)Lakefield: 3 residents work here (9%)PortageNaubinwayMcMillanGarfieldPentlandLakefieldSt. IgnaceMarquetteNaubinway
1
McMillan29.3 mi away
16%5
2
Garfield6.8 mi away
13%4
3
Pentland14.1 mi away
9%3
4
Lakefield18.8 mi away
9%3
5
St. Ignace37.3 mi away
6%2
6
Marquette98.1 mi away
6%2
7
Houghton163.9 mi away
3%1
8
Traverse City92.6 mi away
3%1
9
Norway120 mi away
3%1
10
Wixom264.1 mi away
3%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
28%9
The top trips

Where Naubinway clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

How far

Half of Naubinway commutes less than 34 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miMcMillan: 16% · 29.3 miGarfield: 13% · 6.8 miPentland: 9% · 14.1 miLakefield: 9% · 18.8 miSt. Ignace: 6% · 37.3 miMarquette: 6% · 98.1 miHoughton: 3% · 163.9 miTraverse City: 3% · 92.6 miNorway: 3% · 120 miWixom: 3% · 264.1 miMcMillan 16%Garfield 13%Pentland 9%Lakefield 9%St. Ignace 6%Naubinway
NaubinwayTop destinations (size = commuters)
13%Under 10 mi4 residents
34%10–24 mi11 residents
13%25–50 mi4 residents
41%Over 50 mi13 residents

About 41% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.

The jobs

What the 37 jobs in Naubinway are

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

Jobs based in NaubinwayJobs Naubinway residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%19%
Trade, transport & utilities22%6%
Services: health, schools, offices78%75%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less38%22%
$1,251–$3,333 a month43%44%
Over $3,333 a month19%34%

Who does it

29 or younger27%19%
30 to 5443%63%
55 and older30%19%
+3600%

Jobs based in Naubinway, 2011 → 2021: 1 → 37. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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