Work & commute · Sugar Island

Work & commute in Sugar Island, MI

Most working residents leave Sugar Island for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (52%), Kinross (11%) and Soo (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 218 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 210 Sugar Island residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 103 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Island.

210live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

103work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Island goes to work

Sault Ste. Marie8.5 mi away

52%114

Kinross24.1 mi away

11%24

Soo10.9 mi away

5%10

Sugar Island (in town)right here

4%8

Bruce10.1 mi away

3%7

Dafter12.4 mi away

2%5

Bay Mills27.6 mi away

2%5

Rudyard25 mi away

1%3

Marquette152.1 mi away

1%2

Clark29.9 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

17%38

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

How far

How far Sugar Island commutes

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

53%

28%

16%

53%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Island is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Island are

111 jobs are based in Sugar Island. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Island

111 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Sugar Island residents hold

218 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month58%

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.