Henry Richardi House · Photo: Dkanaris · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Forest Home Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
147 jobs are based in Forest Home Township, and 583 of its residents work somewhere. Forest Home Township grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 4% work in Forest Home Township itself; outside it, Kearney Township draws the most (21%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Forest Home Township, in a few figures
Forest Home Township and Kearney Township trade workers both ways
Kearney Township is the top workplace for Forest Home Township residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Forest Home Township come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Forest Home Township is a place people come home to
There are 147 jobs based in Forest Home Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Forest Home Township has about 1,300 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 583 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Forest Home Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Forest Home Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Forest Home Township’s grade up ($81,111, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Forest Home Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
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 and poverty, Forest Home Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Where Forest Home Township’s working residents head each day
Where Forest Home Township clocks in
6% 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.
A workday in Forest Home Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 561 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Forest Home Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Forest Home Township is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Forest Home Township, 2011 → 2021: 144 → 147. 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 Forest Home Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Forest Home Township takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Forest Home Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 658 commuters (the 15% 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 Forest Home Township, by distance
About 20% 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.
Driving is how Forest Home Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Forest Home Township is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 777 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). 3.7% of Forest Home Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Forest Home Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Forest Home Township ranks 3,359th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 104 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 218 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 263 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,357 | Clay Township IN | 1,273 | $71K | 13.4% | 4.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,358 | Herzog Township KS | 1,644 | $78K | 10.6% | 3.9% | 10% | C |
| 3,359 | Forest Home Township MI | 1,764 | $81K | 8.7% | 5.8% | 4% | C |
| 3,360 | Kingsville Township OH | 1,626 | $79K | 14.6% | 1.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,361 | Hamlin TX | 1,876 | $61K | 13.4% | 1.8% | 23% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Forest Home Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Next door is work for 30% of Forest Home Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Forest Home Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Home Township | – | C | B+ | 22 min | $81,111 |
| Kearney Township | 21% | C− | C+ | 18 min | $72,153 |
| Helena Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Custer Township | under 2% | C | C− | 26 min | $83,750 |
| Bellaire | under 2% | D | A− | 17 min | $55,789 |
| Torch Lake Township | under 2% | C | C− | 29 min | $89,485 |
| Milton Township | under 2% | B− | C | 26 min | $88,971 |
| Central Lake Township | 9% | C | B− | 27 min | $69,891 |
Same-state neighbors only. Helena Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Kearney Township. Darker towns draw more of Forest Home Township’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 Forest Home Township: questions
What is the median household income in Forest Home Township?
$81,111 (±$9,626) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Forest Home Township?
8.7%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Forest Home Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Forest Home Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kearney Township (21%, 6 mi), Central Lake Township (9%, 7 mi), Traverse City (6%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Forest Home Township walkable?
Forest Home Township is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Forest Home Township 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 Forest Home Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Forest Home Township
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.