Work & commute · St. Johns

Work & commute in St. Johns, MI

About one in 5 of St. Johns’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Lansing (19%), East Lansing (6%) and Delta (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21%

701 of 3,347 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,646 St. Johns residents head out of town to work, 701 work right here, and 3,042 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Johns.

2,646live here, work elsewhere

701live and work here

3,042work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Johns goes to work

St. Johns (in town)right here

21%701

Lansing19.8 mi away

19%625

East Lansing17.8 mi away

6%203

Delta19.6 mi away

5%162

DeWitt12.8 mi away

2%60

Meridian20.2 mi away

2%58

Delhi25.9 mi away

2%54

Lansing18.2 mi away

2%53

Bingham1.8 mi away

1%39

Watertown13.7 mi away

1%37

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%1,355

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

How far

How far St. Johns commutes

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

25%

45%

21%

25%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Johns is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Johns are

3,743 jobs are based in St. Johns. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Johns’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Johns

3,743 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs St. Johns residents hold

3,347 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−18%

Jobs based in St. Johns, 2011 → 2021: 4,584 → 3,743. 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.