Work & commute · St. Clair Shores

Work & commute in St. Clair Shores, MI

Most working residents leave St. Clair Shores for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Detroit (16%), Warren (9%) and Troy (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2,271 of 26,186 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 23,915 St. Clair Shores residents head out of town to work, 2,271 work right here, and 9,831 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Clair Shores.

23,915live here, work elsewhere

2,271live and work here

9,831work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Clair Shores goes to work

Detroit13.2 mi away

16%4,220

Warren6.8 mi away

9%2,374

St. Clair Shores (in town)right here

9%2,271

Troy14.4 mi away

6%1,651

Clinton6.9 mi away

5%1,322

Sterling Heights9.4 mi away

4%1,080

Roseville2.5 mi away

3%761

Southfield18.8 mi away

3%712

Shelby14.5 mi away

2%515

Royal Oak13.4 mi away

2%492

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%10,788

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

How far

How far St. Clair Shores commutes

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

42%

44%

42%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Clair Shores is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Clair Shores are

12,102 jobs are based in St. Clair Shores. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Clair Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Clair Shores

12,102 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs St. Clair Shores residents hold

26,186 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−9%

Jobs based in St. Clair Shores, 2011 → 2021: 13,241 → 12,102. 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.