Work & commute · Tawas

Work & commute in Tawas, MI

Most working residents leave Tawas for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Tawas City (18%), East Tawas (6%) and Baldwin (5%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

58 of 579 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 521 Tawas residents head out of town to work, 58 work right here, and 341 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tawas.

521live here, work elsewhere

58live and work here

341work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tawas goes to work

Tawas City3.8 mi away

18%107

Tawas (in town)right here

10%58

East Tawas5.4 mi away

6%34

Baldwin6.3 mi away

5%30

Alpena56.1 mi away

3%17

Grant6 mi away

3%15

Au Sable12.4 mi away

2%12

West Branch31.9 mi away

2%11

Saginaw62.9 mi away

2%11

Sherman8 mi away

2%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%274

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

How far

How far Tawas commutes

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

44%

40%

44%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

40%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tawas is a commuter town

0.69jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tawas are

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

Jobs based in Tawas

399 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month49%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Tawas residents hold

579 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−28%

Jobs based in Tawas, 2011 → 2021: 554 → 399. 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.