Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Deerfield works elsewhere
11 jobs are based in Deerfield; 326 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Deerfield; the top destination outside it is Blissfield Township (11%, 5 miles). Home is the office 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
What the numbers say about work in Deerfield
Deerfield is a place people come home to
There are 11 jobs based in Deerfield, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Deerfield has about 570 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Deerfield workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 24 across Michigan. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Deerfield 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 326 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Deerfield on a workday afternoon
On a workday 326 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Deerfield on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Deerfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deerfield workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 445 commuters (the 3% 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 places Deerfield commutes to
Where Deerfield clocks in
11% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 45% of the jobs in Deerfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deerfield, 2011 → 2021: 86 → 11. 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 Deerfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Deerfield works
About 18% 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 Deerfield: questions
What is the median household income in Deerfield?
$70,556 (±$10,972) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deerfield?
5.8%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deerfield?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deerfield work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blissfield Township (11%, 5 mi), Adrian (7%, 14 mi), Ann Arbor (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Deerfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deerfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deerfield
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.