Falmouth has 2.7 jobs for every working resident: 177 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Michigan as a whole has 14%. There are 182 jobs in Falmouth, and 68 of its residents work somewhere. Only 7% work in Falmouth; the top destination outside it is Clam Union Township (12%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Falmouth by day
On a workday 63 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 340 people are in Falmouth on a workday afternoon, 51% 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.
The daily trip into Falmouth
Where Falmouth 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.
The kinds of work in Falmouth
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Falmouth, 2011 → 2021: 149 → 182. 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 Falmouth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Falmouth workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 73 commuters (the 0% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Falmouth
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.
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 Falmouth: questions
What is the poverty rate in Falmouth?
9.0%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Falmouth?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Falmouth work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clam Union Township (12%, 3 mi), Cadillac (10%, 17 mi), McBain (9%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Falmouth without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Falmouth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Falmouth
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.