Work & commute · St. Ignace

Work & commute in St. Ignace, MI

About one in 3 of St. Ignace’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (8%), Moran (6%) and Mackinac Island (6%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

35%

277 of 786 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 509 St. Ignace residents head out of town to work, 277 work right here, and 723 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Ignace.

509live here, work elsewhere

277live and work here

723work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Ignace goes to work

St. Ignace (in town)right here

35%277

Sault Ste. Marie44.2 mi away

8%65

Moran14.8 mi away

6%48

Mackinac Island5.4 mi away

6%46

St. Ignace10.9 mi away

6%44

Mackinaw10.1 mi away

2%16

Kinross29 mi away

2%15

Bear Creek37.9 mi away

2%13

Brevort12.4 mi away

1%11

Traverse City89 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%242

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.

55%

17%

24%

55%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Ignace is balanced between jobs and homes

1.27jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.27 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Ignace are

1,000 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

1,000 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs St. Ignace residents hold

786 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+121%

Jobs based in St. Ignace, 2011 → 2021: 452 → 1,000. 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.