Work & commute · Sands

Work & commute in Sands, MI

Most working residents leave Sands for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Marquette (41%), Ishpeming (7%) and Chocolay (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40 of 943 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 903 Sands residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 295 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sands.

903live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

295work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sands goes to work

Marquette9 mi away

41%391

Ishpeming11.7 mi away

7%70

Chocolay9.3 mi away

4%40

Sands (in town)right here

4%40

Marquette12.9 mi away

4%39

Forsyth13.3 mi away

4%37

Negaunee8.7 mi away

3%28

Negaunee10.1 mi away

2%17

Escanaba49.8 mi away

2%16

Ishpeming18.4 mi away

2%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%249

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

How far

How far Sands commutes

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

53%

20%

21%

53%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sands is a commuter town

0.36jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sands are

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

Jobs based in Sands

335 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Sands residents hold

943 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+65%

Jobs based in Sands, 2011 → 2021: 203 → 335. 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.