Work & commute · Pleasantview

Work & commute in Pleasantview, MI

Most working residents leave Pleasantview for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Petoskey (23%), Bear Creek (12%) and Little Traverse (7%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19 of 337 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 318 Pleasantview residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 571 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasantview.

318live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

571work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasantview goes to work

Petoskey10.8 mi away

23%76

Bear Creek10.4 mi away

12%41

Little Traverse4.4 mi away

7%25

Harbor Springs6.4 mi away

7%23

Pleasantview (in town)right here

6%19

West Traverse7.6 mi away

4%14

Friendship6.7 mi away

3%11

Boyne Valley24.8 mi away

2%8

Charlevoix21.5 mi away

2%6

Resort13.1 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%108

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

How far

How far Pleasantview commutes

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

60%

15%

22%

60%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasantview is a job hub

1.75jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasantview are

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

Jobs based in Pleasantview

590 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)97%

$1,250 a month or less49%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs Pleasantview residents hold

337 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−21%

Jobs based in Pleasantview, 2011 → 2021: 746 → 590. 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.