Roach, W.R., Cannery Warehouse and Office Building · Photo: Jsokolo · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Croswell (11.6%) is higher than in 97% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Croswell is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (B+). Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. 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
The commute and the jobs: Croswell in brief
Croswell makes and builds things
61% of the jobs based in Croswell are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Croswell residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Croswell workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 820 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Croswell gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Croswell’s grade up (17.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
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, poverty and unemployment, Croswell could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Goods, not services: 61% of the jobs in Croswell
1,168 jobs are based in Croswell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Croswell, 2011 → 2021: 1,022 → 1,168. 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 Croswell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Croswell goes to work
About 33% 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.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Croswell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Croswell workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,060 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.
How a workday changes Croswell
On a workday 688 residents head out to work, 132 work right here, and 1,036 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Croswell on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 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.
11% of working residents work in Port Huron
Where Croswell clocks in
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.
Most of Croswell commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,104 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). 7.4% of Croswell households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Croswell’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Croswell compares with U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 216 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,919 | West Paris ME | 1,773 | $56K | 24.1% | 4.5% | 7% | D |
| 4,920 | Cave City AR | 1,987 | $50K | 19.7% | 4.7% | 17% | D |
| 4,921 | Croswell MI | 2,263 | $55K | 17.1% | 11.6% | 16% | D |
| 4,922 | La Grange NC | 2,947 | $48K | 32.0% | 14.7% | 3% | D |
| 4,923 | Bethel OH | 2,708 | $44K | 27.5% | 9.0% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Croswell, 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 Croswell: questions
What is the median household income in Croswell?
$55,081 (±$2,469) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Croswell?
17.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Croswell?
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 Croswell work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Port Huron (11%, 21 mi), Worth Township (10%, 5 mi), Lexington Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Croswell walkable?
Croswell is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Croswell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Croswell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Croswell
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.