Work & commute · Rives

Work & commute in Rives, MI

Most working residents leave Rives for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Jackson (20%), Blackman (17%) and Summit (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40 of 1,690 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 1,650 Rives residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 149 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rives.

1,650live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

149work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rives goes to work

Jackson9 mi away

20%335

Blackman5.3 mi away

17%295

Summit12 mi away

5%79

Ann Arbor35.9 mi away

4%65

Leoni9.2 mi away

4%64

Rives (in town)right here

2%40

Chelsea21 mi away

2%39

Lansing24.7 mi away

2%39

Spring Arbor13 mi away

2%31

Mason14.4 mi away

2%26

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%677

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

How far

How far Rives commutes

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

39%

27%

18%

16%

39%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rives is a commuter town

0.11jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rives are

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

Jobs based in Rives

189 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Rives residents hold

1,690 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+2%

Jobs based in Rives, 2011 → 2021: 185 → 189. 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.