Work & commute · Pleasant Plains

Work & commute in Pleasant Plains, MI

Most working residents leave Pleasant Plains for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Webber (7%), Reed City (7%) and Grand Rapids (5%). Half commute less than 36 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

37 of 416 working residents

Typical commute

36 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 379 Pleasant Plains residents head out of town to work, 37 work right here, and 455 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Plains.

379live here, work elsewhere

37live and work here

455work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Plains goes to work

Pleasant Plains (in town)right here

9%37

Webber6.5 mi away

7%31

Reed City18.7 mi away

7%28

Grand Rapids63.3 mi away

5%21

Big Rapids22.9 mi away

4%17

Evart30.5 mi away

3%11

Richmond19.4 mi away

2%10

Kentwood69.1 mi away

2%8

Chase12.4 mi away

2%8

Plainfield56.2 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%237

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

How far

How far Pleasant Plains commutes

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

18%

21%

15%

47%

18%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

47%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Plains is balanced between jobs and homes

1.18jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Plains are

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

Jobs based in Pleasant Plains

492 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Pleasant Plains residents hold

416 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month43%

−51%

Jobs based in Pleasant Plains, 2011 → 2021: 995 → 492. 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.