Photo: Phoenix-Five · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Cleveland Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Cleveland Township C+; getting around on foot earns it B−. Cleveland Township has 80 jobs for 430 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cleveland Township, in a few figures
How Cleveland Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Cleveland Township is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cleveland Township’s grade up (7.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Cleveland 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, Cleveland Township could be anywhere from C to B.
Cleveland Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 426 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 76 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Cleveland Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
25% of working residents work in Traverse City
Where Cleveland Township clocks in
25% of workers
9% 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.
40% of the jobs in Cleveland Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cleveland Township, 2011 → 2021: 25 → 80. 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 Cleveland Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cleveland Township: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cleveland Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 437 commuters (the 21% 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 Cleveland Township, by distance
About 24% 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 Cleveland Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cleveland Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 556 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). 0.6% of Cleveland Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cleveland Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cleveland Township places 1,543rd of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 95 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 225 | Petersburg MI | 1,152 | $83K | 1.8% | 1.7% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 275 | Freedom Township MI | 1,298 | $113K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,541 | Oxford KS | 1,038 | $59K | 7.1% | 1.2% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,542 | Chester Township MI | 1,354 | $74K | 5.3% | 10.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,543 | Cleveland Township MI | 1,135 | $82K | 7.9% | 1.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,544 | Torrey NY | 1,286 | $96K | 11.2% | 6.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,545 | Hartland Township OH | 1,035 | $73K | 9.1% | 2.9% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Cleveland Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Next door is work for 13% of Cleveland Township
The biggest share goes to Kasson Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cleveland Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Township | – | C+ | B− | 25 min | $81,607 |
| Glen Arbor Township | 4% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Kasson Township | 7% | C+ | C+ | 23 min | $85,417 |
| Centerville Township | under 2% | B | D | 28 min | $98,281 |
| Leland Township | 2% | B | B | 17 min | $92,857 |
Same-state neighbors only. Glen Arbor Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cleveland 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 Cleveland Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cleveland Township?
$81,607 (±$9,074) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cleveland Township?
7.9%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cleveland Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cleveland Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Traverse City (25%, 20 mi), Garfield Township (9%, 21 mi), Kasson Township (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Cleveland Township walkable?
Cleveland Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cleveland Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cleveland Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cleveland 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.