Work & commute · Rochester Hills

Work & commute in Rochester Hills, MI

Most working residents leave Rochester Hills for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Troy (12%), Auburn Hills (10%) and Detroit (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2,507 of 32,029 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 29,522 Rochester Hills residents head out of town to work, 2,507 work right here, and 23,959 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rochester Hills.

29,522live here, work elsewhere

2,507live and work here

23,959work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rochester Hills goes to work

Troy5.5 mi away

12%3,941

Auburn Hills4.4 mi away

10%3,049

Rochester Hills (in town)right here

8%2,507

Detroit19.6 mi away

8%2,432

Warren13.6 mi away

7%2,142

Southfield14 mi away

4%1,302

Sterling Heights8.7 mi away

4%1,215

Rochester2.6 mi away

3%1,024

Pontiac6.6 mi away

3%952

Farmington Hills16.5 mi away

3%812

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%12,653

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

How far

How far Rochester Hills commutes

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

47%

38%

47%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rochester Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Rochester Hills are

26,466 jobs are based in Rochester Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rochester Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rochester Hills

26,466 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Rochester Hills residents hold

32,029 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month70%

−1%

Jobs based in Rochester Hills, 2011 → 2021: 26,638 → 26,466. 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.