Work & commute · Northville

Work & commute in Northville, MI

Most working residents leave Northville for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Livonia (8%), Detroit (8%) and Dearborn (7%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

501 of 12,988 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

32%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,487 Northville residents head out of town to work, 501 work right here, and 6,961 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Northville.

12,487live here, work elsewhere

501live and work here

6,961work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Northville goes to work

Livonia6 mi away

8%1,084

Detroit19.8 mi away

8%1,027

Dearborn15.8 mi away

7%888

Farmington Hills7.4 mi away

6%843

Ann Arbor15.8 mi away

6%820

Southfield12.3 mi away

5%714

Novi4.3 mi away

5%595

Plymouth2.9 mi away

4%522

Northville (in town)right here

4%501

Troy20.9 mi away

2%310

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%5,684

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

How far

How far Northville commutes

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

37%

49%

37%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Northville is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Northville are

7,462 jobs are based in Northville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Northville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Northville

7,462 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Northville residents hold

12,988 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+95%

Jobs based in Northville, 2011 → 2021: 3,818 → 7,462. 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.