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Work & commute in Three Rivers, MI

About one in 5 of Three Rivers’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Kalamazoo (5%), Portage (4%) and Elkhart (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
22%
756 of 3,441 working residents
Typical commute
19 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
19 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
4%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,685 Three Rivers residents head out of town to work, 756 work right here, and 3,832 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Three Rivers.

2,685live here, work elsewhere
756live and work here
3,832work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Three Rivers goes to work

MiddleburyBristolElkhartThree RiversSturgisKalamazooPortageYorkLockportFlowerfieldMendonNottawaParkConstantineFabiusSchoolcraftKalamazooPortageElkhartParkSturgisMendonMiddleburyYorkBristolThree Rivers
1
Three Rivers (in town)right here
22%756
2
Kalamazoo22.9 mi away
5%163
3
Portage17.5 mi away
4%151
4
Elkhart, IN24.5 mi away
4%137
5
Park5.8 mi away
3%95
6
Sturgis14.9 mi away
3%90
7
Mendon9.9 mi away
2%71
8
Middlebury, IN19.4 mi away
2%70
9
York, IN15.7 mi away
2%70
10
Bristol, IN19.2 mi away
2%65
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%1,773

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

How far

How far Three Rivers commutes

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

33%Under 10 mi
34%10–24 mi
16%25–50 mi
18%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Three Rivers is balanced between jobs and homes

1.33jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Three Rivers are

4,588 jobs are based in Three Rivers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Three Rivers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Three Rivers

4,588 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)45%
Trade, transport & utilities15%
Services (health, schools, offices…)39%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Three Rivers residents hold

3,441 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)40%
Trade, transport & utilities17%
Services (health, schools, offices…)43%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month35%
Over $3,333 a month49%
−1%

Jobs based in Three Rivers, 2011 → 2021: 4,648 → 4,588. 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.

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