With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Bath Township works elsewhere
Employers in Bath Township report 1,878 jobs for 5,049 working residents. Jobs and income earn Bath Township B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 5% work in Bath Township itself; outside it, Lansing draws the most (24%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Bath Township apart
Jobs in Bath Township have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Bath Township went from 895 in 2011 to 1,878 in 2021, +110%. The jobs ↓
Bath Township and Lansing trade workers both ways
Lansing is the top workplace for Bath Township residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Bath Township come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Bath Township’s Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Bath Township is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #249 of 701 in Michigan. Job access by car holds Bath Township’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 11.9%). It also does well on family income.
18% of Bath Township’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (19% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 10.3%, against 17.4% for all residents. Unemployment (4.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($103,614), since student households pull the household median down ($75,541).
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 family income and poverty, Bath Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
The kinds of work in Bath Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bath Township, 2011 → 2021: 895 → 1,878. 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 Bath Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Bath Township: the destinations
Where Bath Township clocks in
24% of workers
14% of workers
6% 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.
Who leaves Bath Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,785 residents head out to work, 264 work right here, and 1,614 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Bath Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bath Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,175 commuters (the 16% 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.
The commute from Bath Township, by distance
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.
In Bath Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bath Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #179 of 701 in Michigan. Both inputs place Bath Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,333 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 16% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 13% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 77% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.1% of Bath Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Bath Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bath Township is 1,110th of 2,526 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 11 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Grosse Pointe Farms MI | 9,735 | $161K | 2.5% | 1.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,108 | Brooklyn OH | 11,072 | $69K | 9.1% | 3.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,109 | Fort Russell Township IL | 9,158 | $73K | 7.6% | 3.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,110 | Bath Township MI | 13,556 | $76K | 17.4% | 4.2% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,111 | Trenton OH | 14,241 | $81K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,112 | Mad River Township OH | 10,961 | $84K | 8.2% | 4.0% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Bath Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
21% of Bath Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to East Lansing (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bath Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath Township | – | B+ | B | 22 min | $75,541 |
| East Lansing | 14% | A− | A+ | 16 min | $45,687 |
| Victor Township | under 2% | B | D− | 29 min | $106,343 |
| Haslett | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Meridian Township | 6% | A | A | 21 min | $86,909 |
| DeWitt Township | 1% | A | C | 24 min | $96,824 |
| Woodhull Township | under 2% | A | D | 28 min | $94,301 |
Same-state neighbors only. Haslett: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bath 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.
- Students. 18% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bath Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bath Township?
$75,541 (±$7,648) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bath Township?
17.4% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 10.3%. Michigan: 13.2%.
How long is the commute from Bath Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bath Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lansing (24%, 10 mi), East Lansing (14%, 6 mi), Meridian Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Bath Township walkable?
Bath Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bath Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 13% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bath Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bath 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.