Work & commute · Spring Lake

Work & commute in Spring Lake, MI

Most working residents leave Spring Lake for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Grand Haven (12%), Spring Lake (10%) and Muskegon (8%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

53 of 939 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 886 Spring Lake residents head out of town to work, 53 work right here, and 1,056 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Lake.

886live here, work elsewhere

53live and work here

1,056work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Lake goes to work

Grand Haven1.8 mi away

12%111

Spring Lake0.6 mi away

10%98

Muskegon11 mi away

8%74

Grand Rapids28.3 mi away

7%69

Kentwood33.1 mi away

4%39

Norton Shores6.9 mi away

4%37

Holland21.7 mi away

3%31

Wyoming27.7 mi away

3%30

Grand Haven5.2 mi away

3%27

Holland18.4 mi away

3%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%398

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

How far

How far Spring Lake commutes

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

39%

24%

14%

39%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Lake is balanced between jobs and homes

1.18jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Lake are

1,109 jobs are based in Spring Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Lake

1,109 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Spring Lake residents hold

939 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+2%

Jobs based in Spring Lake, 2011 → 2021: 1,091 → 1,109. 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.