Work & commute · Peninsula

Work & commute in Peninsula, MI

Most working residents leave Peninsula for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Traverse City (39%), Garfield (11%) and East Bay (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

175 of 1,918 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 1,743 Peninsula residents head out of town to work, 175 work right here, and 436 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Peninsula.

1,743live here, work elsewhere

175live and work here

436work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Peninsula goes to work

Traverse City10.2 mi away

39%749

Garfield12.6 mi away

11%208

Peninsula (in town)right here

9%175

East Bay13.5 mi away

3%52

Elmwood8 mi away

2%42

Grand Rapids133.5 mi away

2%30

Green Lake20.3 mi away

1%25

Gaylord42.1 mi away

1%19

Blair18.6 mi away

1%16

Suttons Bay9.1 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%588

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

How far

How far Peninsula commutes

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

50%

20%

26%

50%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Peninsula 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 Peninsula are

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

Jobs based in Peninsula

611 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Peninsula residents hold

1,918 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+22%

Jobs based in Peninsula, 2011 → 2021: 499 → 611. 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.