Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Haight Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
For 20% of workers, the job is at home, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole. Haight Township has 2 jobs for 72 working residents. Hardly any work in Haight Township itself; outside it, Watersmeet Township draws the most (15%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Haight Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 72 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Haight Township on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 Haight Township work
Where Haight Township clocks in
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Haight Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Haight Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way for Haight Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haight Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 20% 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 Haight Township, by distance
About 38% 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.
31% of Haight Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Haight Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haight Township | – | — | — | 22 min | $50,893 |
| Interior Township | 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| McMillan Township | 6% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Stannard Township | 7% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Watersmeet Township | 15% | C | B− | 22 min | $72,708 |
| Marenisco Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Interior Township, McMillan Township, Stannard Township and Marenisco Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Watersmeet Township. Darker towns draw more of Haight 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 Haight Township: questions
What is the median household income in Haight Township?
$50,893 (±$12,278) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haight Township?
6.8%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haight Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haight Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Watersmeet Township (15%, 11 mi), Ontonagon Township (8%, 29 mi), Stannard Township (7%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Haight Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haight Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haight 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.