Jonesfield TownshipMI
A town of 1,593.
Is Jonesfield Township a good place to live?
The best of Jonesfield Township’s subject grades is a B for cost of living; the weakest is a C− for incomes. 20% of residents live below the poverty line in Jonesfield Township, above both the Michigan town median (8.9%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 102 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns score lower on the outdoors. Jonesfield Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
93% of working residents leave Jonesfield Township for work
Where Jonesfield Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Jonesfield Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Jonesfield Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Jonesfield Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Jonesfield Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Jonesfield Township.
Most of Jonesfield Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.4 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Jonesfield Township for work: only 7% work in town. Since 2011, Jonesfield Township has lost 102 jobs, to 260 in 2021. Jonesfield Township’s average trip to work is 28 minutes, where Michigan’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes.
| Jonesfield Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $60,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 7.2% | 10% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
On state tests, Jonesfield Township’s schools trail 62% of Michigan districts
Its public schools are run by the Merrill Community Schools. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merrill Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 196 | C |
| Merrill High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 165 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
Residents of Jonesfield Township are less healthy than 67% of U.S. towns
Jonesfield Township beats the Michigan average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 16% of adults report frequent physical distress in Jonesfield Township.
| Jonesfield Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 36% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Jonesfield Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.6% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.9% | 8.1% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.2% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Jonesfield Township
Jonesfield Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 16° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Jonesfield Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 65% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Village of Merrill park | — | 14 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
USS Edson and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Jonesfield Township. Close and well known come first.
26 mi MuseumUSS Edson
13 mi GardenDow Gardens
11 mi GardenChippewa Nature Center
26 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum19 mi Zoo & aquariumChildren's Zoo at Celebration Square
19 mi TheatreTemple TheatrePhoto credits
USS Edson: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Dow Gardens: Chris.Schiemann, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chippewa Nature Center: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum: John McCullough, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Temple Theatre: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Jonesfield Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Jonesfield Township
About 3 of every 100 Jonesfield Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Jonesfield Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Jonesfield Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,618 at the 2020 Census. The Village of Merrill is located within Jonesfield Township.
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- Area
- 25 sq mi
- Elevation
- 666 ft
Jonesfield Township’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Jonesfield Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonesfield Township | — | — | B | — | C+ | C |
| Lakefield Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Richland Township | #356 | B− | C | B+ | B+ | B |
| Mount Haley Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | B− |
Jonesfield Township and Mount Haley Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Jonesfield Township and Mount Haley Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Lakefield Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Jonesfield Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Jonesfield Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Jonesfield Township, MI expensive?
The typical home is worth about $144,000. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.