Work & commute · St. Ignace

Work & commute in St. Ignace, MI

Most working residents leave St. Ignace for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are St. Ignace (20%), Mackinac Island (10%) and Moran (10%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 299 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 278 St. Ignace residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 213 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Ignace.

278live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

213work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Ignace goes to work

St. Ignace10.9 mi away

20%59

Mackinac Island12.9 mi away

10%30

Moran12.3 mi away

10%30

Sault Ste. Marie33.6 mi away

10%29

St. Ignace (in town)right here

7%21

Garfield40.2 mi away

3%8

Kinross18.1 mi away

2%7

Clark16.5 mi away

2%6

Brevort7.7 mi away

2%5

Mackinaw20.6 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%100

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

How far

How far St. Ignace commutes

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

40%

17%

19%

24%

40%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Ignace is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Ignace are

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

Jobs based in St. Ignace

234 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month64%

Over $3,333 a month21%

Jobs St. Ignace residents hold

299 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−76%

Jobs based in St. Ignace, 2011 → 2021: 988 → 234. 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.