Work & commute · St. Charles

Work & commute in St. Charles, MI

Most working residents leave St. Charles for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Saginaw (11%), St. Charles (10%) and Saginaw (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

70 of 745 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 675 St. Charles residents head out of town to work, 70 work right here, and 434 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Charles.

675live here, work elsewhere

70live and work here

434work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Charles goes to work

Saginaw13.3 mi away

11%85

St. Charles3.1 mi away

10%75

Saginaw12.7 mi away

8%57

Chesaning8.5 mi away

7%51

Owosso20.7 mi away

5%37

Midland23.1 mi away

4%30

Swan Creek4.1 mi away

3%25

Flint28.2 mi away

2%16

Richland10.8 mi away

2%13

Buena Vista18.6 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%343

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

How far

How far St. Charles commutes

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

25%

43%

12%

20%

25%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Charles is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Charles are

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

Jobs based in St. Charles

504 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less33%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs St. Charles residents hold

745 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−12%

Jobs based in St. Charles, 2011 → 2021: 572 → 504. 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.