Deal, J.J., and Son Carriage Factory · Photo: Everts & Abbott · Public domainJonesville has 2.2 jobs for every working resident: 1,818 people commute in to work
About one in ten work in Jonesville itself; outside it, Hillsdale draws the most (24%, 3 miles). 1,916 jobs are based in Jonesville for 883 working residents. Jonesville grades C− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jonesville and work: the main findings
Jonesville is where the jobs are
Jonesville has 1,916 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,200 people are in town, 47% more than the 2,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jonesville and Hillsdale trade workers both ways
Hillsdale is the top workplace for Jonesville residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Jonesville come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Jonesville makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Jonesville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Jonesville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. 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; with 883 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Jonesville’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Jonesville’s grade up (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
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, Jonesville could be anywhere from D to B+.
Jonesville by day and by night
On a workday 785 residents head out to work and 98 work right here.
About 3,200 people are in Jonesville on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
The towns that send workers to Jonesville
Where Jonesville clocks in
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.
Goods jobs make up 56% of work in Jonesville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jonesville, 2011 → 2021: 1,864 → 1,916. 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 Jonesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jonesville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 905 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far it is to work from Jonesville
About 28% 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 Jonesville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jonesville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of 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 996 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). 4.0% of Jonesville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Jonesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Jonesville is 3,803rd of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 213 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,801 | New Lisbon WI | 2,577 | $71K | 16.4% | 7.5% | 14% | C− |
| 3,802 | Nevins Township IN | 1,825 | $66K | 13.0% | 9.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,803 | Jonesville MI | 2,175 | $65K | 17.8% | 5.4% | 11% | C− |
| 3,804 | Windham OH | 1,675 | $54K | 23.0% | 5.5% | 4% | C− |
| 3,805 | Kulpmont PA | 2,688 | $50K | 10.7% | 5.5% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Jonesville, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
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 Jonesville: questions
What is the median household income in Jonesville?
$65,200 (±$6,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jonesville?
17.8%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jonesville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jonesville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsdale (24%, 3 mi), Coldwater (5%, 17 mi), Litchfield (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Jonesville walkable?
Jonesville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jonesville without a car?
1% 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 Jonesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jonesville
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.