Work & commute · Superior

Work & commute in Superior, MI

Most working residents leave Superior for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Sault Ste. Marie (35%), Bay Mills (23%) and Kinross (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 520 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 503 Superior residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Superior.

503live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

116work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Superior goes to work

Sault Ste. Marie15.9 mi away

35%181

Bay Mills6.5 mi away

23%120

Kinross5 mi away

6%31

Soo24.6 mi away

4%22

Superior (in town)right here

3%17

Dafter11.1 mi away

2%9

Marquette130.2 mi away

1%6

Escanaba123.6 mi away

1%6

Petoskey71.8 mi away

1%4

Traverse City120.8 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%120

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

How far

How far Superior commutes

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

38%

21%

38%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Superior is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Superior are

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

Jobs based in Superior

133 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Superior residents hold

520 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+5%

Jobs based in Superior, 2011 → 2021: 127 → 133. 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.