Acres, The (Additional Documentation) · Photo: User:Jaydec · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Charleston Township has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 1,920 people come in to work
1,939 jobs are based in Charleston Township, against 797 working residents. For jobs and income Charleston Township is better than 66% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where Michigan as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Charleston Township apart on work
Charleston Township is where the jobs are
Charleston Township has 1,939 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,000 people are in town, 60% more than the 1,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
73% of the jobs in Charleston Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
37% of the jobs based in Charleston Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Charleston Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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 797 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Charleston Township’s grade explained
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Charleston Township’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Charleston 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 rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Charleston Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
A workday in Charleston Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 778 residents head out to work and 19 work right here.
About 3,000 people are in Charleston Township on a workday afternoon, 60% 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.
What Charleston Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Charleston Township, 2011 → 2021: 1,708 → 1,939. 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 Charleston Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Charleston Township
Where Charleston Township clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Charleston Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Charleston Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 829 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 distance from Charleston Township to work
About 16% 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 Charleston Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 868 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). 0.5% of Charleston Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Charleston Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,455th of 5,921: where Charleston Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 109 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
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| 148 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
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| 223 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,453 | Pine Knoll Shores NC | 1,423 | $109K | 3.5% | 3.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,454 | Dallas Township IN | 2,060 | $78K | 5.0% | 3.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,455 | Charleston Township MI | 1,895 | $82K | 8.6% | 7.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,456 | Hopewell Township OH | 1,435 | $96K | 7.7% | 7.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,457 | Polk Township OH | 1,965 | $77K | 4.5% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Charleston Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Next door is work for 18% of Charleston Township
The biggest share goes to Battle Creek (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Charleston Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Township | – | B+ | D | 20 min | $82,308 |
| Ross Township | under 3% | A− | C− | 25 min | $103,932 |
| Galesburg | under 3% | C− | B+ | 22 min | $52,153 |
| Climax Township | under 3% | B | C− | 27 min | $75,625 |
| Battle Creek | 10% | C− | B+ | 19 min | $55,693 |
| Comstock Township | 8% | B+ | C+ | 22 min | $76,376 |
| Augusta | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Augusta: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Charleston 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 Charleston Township: questions
What is the median household income in Charleston Township?
$82,308 (±$15,273) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Charleston Township?
8.6%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Charleston Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Charleston Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kalamazoo (15%, 12 mi), Portage (11%, 14 mi), Battle Creek (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Charleston Township walkable?
Charleston Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Charleston Township without a car?
<1% 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 Charleston Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Charleston 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.