Household incomes in Concord trail those of 73% of U.S. towns
Only 3% work in Concord; the top destination outside it is Jackson (17%, 13 miles). Poverty touches 13.5% of residents, next to 13.2% for Michigan as a whole. Jobs and income earn Concord C; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Concord: the gist
How Concord earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Concord is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Concord’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,625, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Concord’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, Concord could be anywhere from D to B.
Concord works in goods: 38% of its jobs
337 jobs are based in Concord.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Concord, 2011 → 2021: 257 → 337. 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 Concord’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Concord
On a workday 430 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 325 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Concord on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
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 Concord ends
Where Concord clocks in
17% 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.
The trip to work from Concord: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Concord workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 440 commuters (the 8% 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.
Concord’s commute, mile by mile
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 Concord, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Concord is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 476 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). 3.3% of Concord households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Concord’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,194th of 3,771: where Concord ranks 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,192 | Millwood Township OH | 1,225 | $55K | 6.0% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,193 | Ladoga IN | 1,103 | $62K | 11.2% | 0.8% | 3% | C |
| 2,194 | Concord MI | 1,083 | $61K | 13.5% | 3.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,195 | Hayfield MN | 1,358 | $69K | 15.9% | 2.6% | 13% | C |
| 2,196 | Geneva Township MI | 1,067 | $62K | 10.1% | 9.5% | 1% | 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 Concord, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
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 Concord: questions
What is the median household income in Concord?
$60,625 (±$16,232) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Concord?
13.5%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Concord?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Concord work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (17%, 13 mi), Blackman Township (10%, 14 mi), Spring Arbor Township (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Concord walkable?
Concord is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Concord without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Concord, from the people who make the trip.
More of Concord
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.