Work & commute · Spaulding

Work & commute in Spaulding, MI

Most working residents leave Spaulding for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Saginaw (21%), Saginaw (11%) and Frankenmuth (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 672 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 639 Spaulding residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 240 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spaulding.

639live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

240work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spaulding goes to work

Saginaw5.5 mi away

21%144

Saginaw7.7 mi away

11%76

Frankenmuth12.4 mi away

6%42

Spaulding (in town)right here

5%33

Bridgeport5.6 mi away

4%29

Buena Vista10 mi away

3%20

Kochville11.3 mi away

3%17

Lansing52.2 mi away

2%15

Vienna15.9 mi away

2%13

Flint26.5 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%272

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

How far

How far Spaulding commutes

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

49%

17%

10%

24%

49%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spaulding is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spaulding are

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

Jobs based in Spaulding

273 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Spaulding residents hold

672 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month40%

+70%

Jobs based in Spaulding, 2011 → 2021: 161 → 273. 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.