Photo: RaboKarbakian · CC BY-SA 1.0Households in Fowlerville earn less than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 14.2% of residents, against 13.2% across Michigan. Jobs and income earn Fowlerville C; getting around on foot earns it A. About one in ten stay in Fowlerville for work; outside it, Handy Township is the main destination (10%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Fowlerville, in brief
Fowlerville is where the jobs are
Fowlerville has 1,943 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fowlerville makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Fowlerville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fowlerville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Fowlerville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fowlerville is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #524 of 701 in Michigan. Job access by car holds Fowlerville’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,773, U.S. $80,734).
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, Fowlerville could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who commutes out of Fowlerville, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,113 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 1,842 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,600 people are in Fowlerville on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
Goods jobs make up 37% of work in Fowlerville
1,943 jobs are based in Fowlerville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fowlerville, 2011 → 2021: 1,657 → 1,943. 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 Fowlerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Fowlerville, and from where
Where Fowlerville clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Fowlerville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fowlerville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,217 commuters (the 7% 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 Fowlerville, by distance
About 15% 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.
In Fowlerville, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fowlerville is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns, #38 of 701 in Michigan. Both inputs place Fowlerville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,315 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.4% of Fowlerville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fowlerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,099th of 4,882: where Fowlerville ranks among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Franklin MI | 3,134 | $194K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 144 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 240 | Milton Township MI | 3,187 | $119K | 3.2% | 2.3% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,097 | Marysville KS | 3,385 | $55K | 12.0% | 2.2% | 57% | C+ |
| 3,098 | Delaware Township PA | 2,022 | $72K | 8.9% | 5.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,099 | Fowlerville MI | 2,874 | $46K | 14.2% | 4.3% | 8% | C |
| 3,100 | Pequot Lakes MN | 2,483 | $64K | 6.6% | 10.4% | 15% | C |
| 3,101 | Lawnside NJ | 3,340 | $72K | 20.4% | 11.5% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Fowlerville, 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 Fowlerville: questions
What is the median household income in Fowlerville?
$45,773 (±$11,044) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fowlerville?
14.2%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fowlerville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fowlerville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Handy Township (10%, 2 mi), Howell (8%, 8 mi), Genoa Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Fowlerville walkable?
Fowlerville is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fowlerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fowlerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fowlerville
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.