Work & commute · Olive

Work & commute in Olive, MI

Most working residents leave Olive for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Lansing (25%), East Lansing (7%) and Delta (7%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23 of 1,037 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,014 Olive residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 313 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Olive.

1,014live here, work elsewhere

23live and work here

313work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Olive goes to work

Lansing12.6 mi away

25%264

East Lansing10.8 mi away

7%76

Delta13 mi away

7%72

St. Johns7.2 mi away

7%69

DeWitt5.7 mi away

3%29

Watertown7.7 mi away

2%25

DeWitt4.4 mi away

2%24

Olive (in town)right here

2%23

Meridian13.6 mi away

2%21

Ionia27.2 mi away

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%414

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

How far

How far Olive commutes

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

24%

47%

10%

19%

24%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Olive is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Olive are

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

Jobs based in Olive

336 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Olive residents hold

1,037 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+282%

Jobs based in Olive, 2011 → 2021: 88 → 336. 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.