Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0Bay View draws 219 commuters a day, with 3.6 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 100% of workers; Michigan has 14%. There are 219 jobs in Bay View for 61 working residents. 4.9% of residents are in poverty; Michigan has 13.2%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Bay View: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 61 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 320 people are in Bay View on a workday afternoon, 96% more 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.
Where the people who work in Bay View live
Where Bay View clocks in
23% of workers
15% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Bay View: what the 219 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bay View, 2011 → 2021: 201 → 219. 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 Bay View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bay View
of Bay View workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Bay View
About 28% 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.
23% of Bay View works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Petoskey. Darker towns draw more of Bay View’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 Bay View: questions
What is the median household income in Bay View?
$236,500 (±$85,654) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bay View?
4.9%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bay View work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Petoskey (23%, 2 mi), Bear Creek Township (15%, 3 mi), Traverse City (7%, 55 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bay View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bay View
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.