Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Ahmeek has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Ahmeek for work; outside it, Calumet Township is the main destination (21%, 4 miles). There are 1 jobs in Ahmeek, against 38 working residents. 0% of workers have no commute at all; Michigan has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ahmeek by day and by night
On a workday 38 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 83 people are in Ahmeek on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
Out of Ahmeek to work: where people go
Where Ahmeek clocks in
21% of workers
13% of workers
11% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Ahmeek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ahmeek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Ahmeek, about 12 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ahmeek workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 60 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Ahmeek
About 21% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ahmeek: questions
What is the median household income in Ahmeek?
$41,250 (±$33,818) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ahmeek?
20.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ahmeek?
12 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ahmeek work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Calumet Township (21%, 4 mi), Hancock (13%, 15 mi), Houghton (11%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Ahmeek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ahmeek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ahmeek
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.