Work & commute · Oak Park

Work & commute in Oak Park, MI

Most working residents leave Oak Park for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Detroit (18%), Southfield (9%) and Troy (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

350 of 11,778 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,428 Oak Park residents head out of town to work, 350 work right here, and 6,715 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Park.

11,428live here, work elsewhere

350live and work here

6,715work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Park goes to work

Detroit7 mi away

18%2,098

Southfield4 mi away

9%1,099

Troy8.4 mi away

7%798

Warren8.3 mi away

5%551

Dearborn10.6 mi away

4%435

Farmington Hills10 mi away

4%420

Oak Park (in town)right here

3%350

Auburn Hills14.8 mi away

3%342

Royal Oak3.3 mi away

3%331

Livonia10.8 mi away

3%309

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%5,045

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

How far

How far Oak Park commutes

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

49%

39%

49%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Park is a commuter town

0.60jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Park are

7,065 jobs are based in Oak Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Park

7,065 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Oak Park residents hold

11,778 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−18%

Jobs based in Oak Park, 2011 → 2021: 8,631 → 7,065. 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.