Work & commute · Orleans

Work & commute in Orleans, MI

Most working residents leave Orleans for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Grand Rapids (10%), Ionia (8%) and Belding (7%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 1,168 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 1,154 Orleans residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 315 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orleans.

1,154live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

315work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orleans goes to work

Grand Rapids27.5 mi away

10%114

Ionia7.5 mi away

8%89

Belding5.2 mi away

7%82

Otisco6.2 mi away

5%63

Greenville9.3 mi away

5%61

Cascade21.8 mi away

4%49

Kentwood26.7 mi away

3%34

Ada18.9 mi away

3%33

Lansing38.3 mi away

3%31

Lowell14.5 mi away

2%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%588

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

How far

How far Orleans commutes

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

26%

27%

29%

18%

26%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orleans is a commuter town

0.28jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orleans are

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

Jobs based in Orleans

329 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Orleans residents hold

1,168 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+391%

Jobs based in Orleans, 2011 → 2021: 67 → 329. 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.