Where Fremont Township earns its living
Only 5% stay in Fremont Township for work; outside it, Mount Pleasant is the main destination (20%, 9 miles). The two grades for Fremont Township are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 7% 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
Work in Fremont Township, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Fremont Township
On income, poverty and job access, Fremont Township is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Fremont Township’s grade up ($74,911, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Fremont 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 three years behind.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fremont Township could be anywhere from D to B.
Goods jobs make up 83% of work in Fremont Township
547 jobs are based in Fremont Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fremont Township, 2011 → 2021: 151 → 547. 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 Fremont Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Fremont Township by day
On a workday 530 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 522 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.99 per resident).
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 places Fremont Township commutes to
Where Fremont Township clocks in
20% 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.
From Fremont Township, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fremont Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 833 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 distance from Fremont Township to work
About 23% 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.
Most trips from Fremont Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fremont Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 892 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). 6.3% of Fremont Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Fremont Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fremont Township places 3,274th of 5,397 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 86 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
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| 146 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 185 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
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| 3,272 | Langley WA | 1,129 | $77K | 10.4% | 4.2% | 8% | C |
| 3,273 | Shullsburg WI | 1,240 | $64K | 11.7% | 4.6% | 11% | C |
| 3,274 | Fremont Township MI | 1,511 | $75K | 13.2% | 4.3% | 5% | C |
| 3,275 | Fulton NY | 1,205 | $76K | 10.0% | 0.8% | 4% | C |
| 3,276 | Cass Township OH | 1,212 | $60K | 14.4% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Fremont Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Fremont Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fremont Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont Township | – | C | C− | 26 min | $74,911 |
| Lincoln Township | under 3% | B− | D− | 24 min | $72,938 |
| Richland Township | under 3% | D− | D | 40 min | $50,862 |
| Deerfield Township | under 3% | C+ | D | 20 min | $96,667 |
| Rolland Township | under 3% | D | B− | 27 min | $55,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fremont 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 Fremont Township: questions
What is the median household income in Fremont Township?
$74,911 (±$19,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fremont Township?
13.2%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fremont Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fremont Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (20%, 9 mi), Union Township (6%, 7 mi), Alma (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Fremont Township walkable?
Fremont Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fremont Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fremont Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fremont 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.