Photo: Rklawton · CC BY-SA 4.0Garden has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 4% work in Garden itself; outside it, Garden Township draws the most (13%, 12 miles). Garden has 11 jobs for 47 working residents. For 3% of workers, the job is at home (Michigan 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Garden by day
On a workday 45 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Garden on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Where people from Garden work
Where Garden clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Garden
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Garden, 2011 → 2021: 17 → 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 Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 73 minutes from Garden
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 23.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Garden workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 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 distance from Garden to work
About 40% 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 Garden: questions
What is the median household income in Garden?
$42,917 (±$15,130) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Garden?
11.0%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Garden?
73 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Garden work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Garden Township (13%, 12 mi), Escanaba (11%, 25 mi), Marquette (9%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Garden 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 Garden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Garden
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.