Photo: Travisvanvelzen · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Coopersville earn less than those in 63% of U.S. towns
9.5% of residents are in poverty, next to 13.2% for Michigan as a whole. Jobs and income earn Coopersville B; getting around on foot earns it C. About one in ten work in Coopersville itself; outside it, Grand Rapids draws the most (15%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Coopersville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Coopersville is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #358 of 701 in Michigan. Job access by car holds Coopersville’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($67,131, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is three years behind.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coopersville could be anywhere from C to A.
Who commutes out of Coopersville, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,876 residents head out to work, 248 work right here, and 2,365 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Coopersville on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 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 Coopersville’s working residents head each day
Where Coopersville clocks in
Lines 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.
A place that makes things: 32% of Coopersville’s jobs are in goods
2,613 jobs are based in Coopersville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coopersville, 2011 → 2021: 2,013 → 2,613. 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 Coopersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Coopersville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coopersville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,266 commuters (the 9% 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.
Half of Coopersville commutes less than 16 miles
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.
Coopersville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coopersville is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns, #411 of 701 in Michigan. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.8% across Michigan.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,482 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.8% of Coopersville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Coopersville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coopersville places 1,799th of 3,753 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Northville MI | 6,013 | $146K | 2.8% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Vergennes Township MI | 4,968 | $113K | 1.5% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,797 | Shaw Heights CO | 5,565 | $86K | 12.3% | 6.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,798 | Morgan Township IN | 4,135 | $63K | 9.2% | 2.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,799 | Coopersville MI | 4,802 | $67K | 9.5% | 4.6% | 12% | B |
| 1,800 | South Point OH | 3,640 | $80K | 13.2% | 0.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,801 | Conklin NY | 4,823 | $66K | 10.1% | 2.8% | 14% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,753 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Coopersville, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Around Coopersville: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Coopersville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coopersville | – | B | C | 23 min | $67,131 |
| Polkton Township | under 3% | A | D− | 24 min | $112,708 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Coopersville’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 Coopersville: questions
What is the median household income in Coopersville?
$67,131 (±$12,829) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coopersville?
9.5%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coopersville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coopersville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (15%, 16 mi), Walker (7%, 10 mi), Wyoming (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Coopersville walkable?
Coopersville is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coopersville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coopersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coopersville
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.