Photo: Gpwitteveen · CC BY-SA 3.0Cannonsburg has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. There are 6 jobs in Cannonsburg for 65 working residents. Hardly any work in Cannonsburg; the top destination outside it is Grand Rapids (28%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Cannonsburg
On a workday 65 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 450 people are in Cannonsburg on a workday afternoon, 12% 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.
Where the trip to work from Cannonsburg ends
Where Cannonsburg clocks in
5% 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.
In Cannonsburg, 67% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cannonsburg, 2011 → 2021: 4 → 6. 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 Cannonsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Cannonsburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cannonsburg workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 312 commuters (the 4% 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 Cannonsburg, by distance
About 22% 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 Cannonsburg: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cannonsburg?
0.0%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cannonsburg?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cannonsburg work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (28%, 11 mi), Livonia (5%, 116 mi), Rockford (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Cannonsburg 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 Cannonsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cannonsburg
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.