Tawas Point Light Station · Photo: Asher196 03:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Baldwin Township earns its living
Baldwin Township grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 6% work in Baldwin Township; the top destination outside it is Tawas City (15%, 4 miles). 7% of workers work from home, where Michigan as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Baldwin Township
Baldwin Township makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Baldwin Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Baldwin Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Baldwin Township works one town over
32% of working residents work in a town that borders Baldwin Township: Tawas City (15%), East Tawas (7%) and Tawas Township (6%). Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published; with 469 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Baldwin Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Baldwin Township is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Baldwin Township’s grade up ($69,792, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Baldwin Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is two years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Baldwin Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
69% of the jobs in Baldwin Township make or build things
572 jobs are based in Baldwin Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baldwin Township, 2011 → 2021: 646 → 572. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Baldwin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Baldwin Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 44% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Baldwin Township
On a workday 439 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 542 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Baldwin Township ends
Where Baldwin Township clocks in
15% 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.
About 15 minutes to work from Baldwin Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baldwin Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 801 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most of Baldwin Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Baldwin Township is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 860 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.3% of Baldwin Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Baldwin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Baldwin Township places 4,466th of 6,161 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 105 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
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| 174 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 216 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,464 | Franklinville NY | 1,632 | $72K | 15.2% | 5.1% | 14% | C− |
| 4,465 | Mound City Township KS | 1,328 | $64K | 11.1% | 0.7% | 15% | C− |
| 4,466 | Baldwin Township MI | 1,607 | $70K | 13.1% | 2.2% | 6% | C− |
| 4,467 | Tuscarora NY | 1,370 | $77K | 18.5% | 3.1% | 3% | C− |
| 4,468 | Seeley CA | 1,182 | $63K | 19.5% | 17.9% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Baldwin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Baldwin Township and its neighbors: 32% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Baldwin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Township | – | C− | B | 15 min | $69,792 |
| East Tawas | 7% | D | A− | 17 min | $42,450 |
| Tawas Township | 6% | D | C | 25 min | $59,531 |
| Wilber Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Au Sable Township | 4% | D | C− | 17 min | $50,511 |
| Tawas City | 15% | D | B+ | 14 min | $46,014 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wilber Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tawas City. Darker towns draw more of Baldwin Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Baldwin Township: questions
What is the median household income in Baldwin Township?
$69,792 (±$14,431) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baldwin Township?
13.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baldwin Township?
15 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baldwin Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tawas City (15%, 4 mi), East Tawas (7%, 2 mi), Tawas Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Baldwin Township walkable?
Baldwin Township is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Baldwin Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Baldwin Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baldwin Township
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.