Work & commute · Spalding

Work & commute in Spalding, MI

Most working residents leave Spalding for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Escanaba (13%), Harris (12%) and Iron Mountain (8%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

42 of 559 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 517 Spalding residents head out of town to work, 42 work right here, and 637 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spalding.

517live here, work elsewhere

42live and work here

637work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spalding goes to work

Escanaba23.2 mi away

13%71

Harris8.1 mi away

12%67

Iron Mountain24.4 mi away

8%45

Spalding (in town)right here

8%42

Meyer5.7 mi away

6%32

Marinette, WI50.7 mi away

4%21

Menominee48.2 mi away

4%20

Wells18.5 mi away

3%18

Escanaba18.8 mi away

3%18

Breitung22.3 mi away

3%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%208

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

How far

How far Spalding commutes

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

25%

31%

24%

20%

25%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spalding is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Spalding are

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

Jobs based in Spalding

679 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Spalding residents hold

559 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−29%

Jobs based in Spalding, 2011 → 2021: 963 → 679. 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.