Crystal Mountain has 14.7 jobs for every working resident: 382 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 5% of workers (Michigan 14%). There are 383 jobs in Crystal Mountain, against 26 working residents. Only 4% work in Crystal Mountain; the top destination outside it is Benzonia Township (15%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Crystal Mountain by day
On a workday 25 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 520 people are in Crystal Mountain on a workday afternoon, 215% 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.
Who travels to work in Crystal Mountain, and from where
Where Crystal Mountain clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Crystal Mountain
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crystal Mountain, 2011 → 2021: 325 → 383. 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 Crystal Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from Crystal Mountain
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crystal Mountain workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 78 commuters (the 5% 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 Crystal Mountain, by distance
About 31% 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.
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 Crystal Mountain: questions
What is the median household income in Crystal Mountain?
$120,938 (±$71,228) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crystal Mountain?
2.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crystal Mountain?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crystal Mountain work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Benzonia Township (15%, 11 mi), Frankfort (12%, 14 mi), Traverse City (8%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Crystal Mountain 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 Crystal Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crystal Mountain
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.