Haring Township draws 2,272 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Haring Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C). There are 2,378 jobs in Haring Township, against 1,165 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Haring Township: the gist
A lot of Haring Township works one town over
38% of working residents work in a town that borders Haring Township: Cadillac (33%), Clam Lake Township (4%) and Lake Township (1%). Next door ↓
Haring Township is where the jobs are
Haring Township has 2,378 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Haring Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
41% of the jobs in Haring Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. 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.
Inside Haring Township’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Haring Township’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
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 rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Haring Township could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Haring Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,059 residents head out to work and 106 work right here.
About 4,800 people are in Haring Township on a workday afternoon, 33% more 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.
About 25 minutes each way for Haring Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haring Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,534 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.
What Haring Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haring Township, 2011 → 2021: 1,834 → 2,378. 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 Haring Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Haring Township’s workforce comes from
Where Haring 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.
The distance from Haring Township to work
About 22% 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.
For most of Haring Township, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.8% across Michigan.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,574 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). 5.5% of Haring Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Haring Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Haring Township is 2,229th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 24 | Franklin MI | 3,134 | $194K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 124 | Ann Arbor Township MI | 4,506 | $165K | 7.2% | 0.5% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Dexter MI | 4,461 | $107K | 0.8% | 2.1% | 9% | A+ |
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| 2,227 | Silverhill AL | 2,529 | $58K | 5.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,228 | Geneva Township MI | 3,401 | $75K | 11.8% | 2.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,229 | Haring Township MI | 3,626 | $75K | 8.4% | 3.1% | 9% | B− |
| 2,230 | Boggs Township PA | 2,686 | $68K | 11.3% | 1.9% | 12% | B− |
| 2,231 | North Brooksville FL | 4,227 | $78K | 14.7% | 2.3% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Haring Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Next door is work for 38% of Haring Township
The biggest share goes to Cadillac (33%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Haring Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haring Township | – | B− | C | 25 min | $74,563 |
| Cadillac | 33% | D | A− | 14 min | $51,773 |
| Selma Township | under 2% | C− | D | 26 min | $65,217 |
| Lake Township | 1% | B− | C+ | 22 min | $72,917 |
| Cedar Creek Township | under 2% | C | C | 32 min | $66,667 |
| Clam Lake Township | 4% | B− | C | 20 min | $86,429 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Haring 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 Haring Township: questions
What is the median household income in Haring Township?
$74,563 (±$19,609) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haring Township?
8.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haring Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haring Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cadillac (33%, 4 mi), Traverse City (6%, 33 mi), Cherry Grove Township (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Haring Township walkable?
Haring Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haring Township without a car?
0% 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 Haring Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haring 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.