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Work & commute in Trowbridge Park · A commuter town

97% of Trowbridge Park’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Trowbridge Park for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Marquette (51%), Marquette (7%) and Ishpeming (4%). Half commute less than 3 miles.

Work in town
3%
28 of 879 working residents
Typical commute
3 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
11 min
Less than MI (24 min)
Work from home
11%
Less than MI (14%)
Jobs based here
561
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Trowbridge Park?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Next door

58% of Trowbridge Park works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Marquette (51%). Darker towns draw more of Trowbridge Park’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Trowbridge Park11 min
Marquette11 min
Marquette13 min
Time on the road

About 11 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
81 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Trowbridge Park11 min
Michigan24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
11%

of Trowbridge Park workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
The commute map

51% of working residents work in Marquette

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Iron Mountain: 21 residents work here (2%)Ishpeming: 36 residents work here (4%)Marquette: 445 residents work here (51%)Negaunee: 27 residents work here (3%)Escanaba: 22 residents work here (3%)Chocolay: 19 residents work here (2%)Marquette: 61 residents work here (7%)Powell: 10 residents work here (1%)Negaunee: 17 residents work here (2%)SandsForsyth: 20 residents work here (2%)IshpemingTrowbridge ParkMarquetteMarquetteIshpemingNegauneeEscanabaIron MountainTrowbridge Park
1
Marquette2.2 mi away
51%445
2
Marquette4.8 mi away
7%61
3
Ishpeming12.6 mi away
4%36
4
Negaunee8.3 mi away
3%27
5
Escanaba58.5 mi away
3%22
6
Iron Mountain58.4 mi away
2%21
7
Forsyth22.4 mi away
2%20
8
Chocolay11 mi away
2%19
9
Negaunee5 mi away
2%17
10
Powell26.8 mi away
1%10
Everywhere elseother towns and states
23%201
The top trips

Where Trowbridge Park clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

How far

Half of Trowbridge Park commutes less than 3 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi70 miMarquette: 51% · 2.2 miMarquette: 7% · 4.8 miIshpeming: 4% · 12.6 miNegaunee: 3% · 8.3 miEscanaba: 3% · 58.5 miIron Mountain: 2% · 58.4 miForsyth: 2% · 22.4 miChocolay: 2% · 11 miNegaunee: 2% · 5 miPowell: 1% · 26.8 miMarquette 51%Marquette 7%Ishpeming 4%Negaunee 3%Escanaba 3%Trowbridge Park
Trowbridge ParkTop destinations (size = commuters)
65%Under 10 mi574 residents
9%10–24 mi83 residents
2%25–50 mi14 residents
23%Over 50 mi206 residents

About 23% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

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

Jobs based in Trowbridge ParkJobs Trowbridge Park residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms4%15%
Trade, transport & utilities9%19%
Services: health, schools, offices87%66%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less29%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month38%31%
Over $3,333 a month34%54%

Who does it

29 or younger30%22%
30 to 5449%53%
55 and older21%25%
+20%

Jobs based in Trowbridge Park, 2011 → 2021: 467 → 561. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.

Day and night

Trowbridge Park quiets down on a workday

On a workday 851 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 533 people come in from elsewhere.

851live here, work elsewhere
28live and work here
533work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night2,400
Workday2,100
2,400live here− 850head out to work+ 530come in to work= 2,100on a workday

About 2,100 people are in Trowbridge Park on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.64jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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