Antrim County Courthouse · Photo: Dkanaris · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Kearney Township has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 1,009 people come in to work
The two grades for Kearney Township are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 1,124 jobs are based in Kearney Township, against 562 working residents. 30% of workers have no commute at all, where Michigan as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Kearney Township apart on work
Kearney Township is where the jobs are
Kearney Township has 1,124 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Kearney Township
30% of Kearney Township workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Kearney Township workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Kearney Township’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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 562 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Kearney Township
On income, poverty and job access, Kearney Township is better than 24% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Kearney Township’s grade up (10.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Kearney Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
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 fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kearney Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
Kearney Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 447 residents head out to work and 115 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Kearney Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Kearney Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kearney Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 638 commuters (the 30% 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 kinds of work in Kearney Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kearney Township, 2011 → 2021: 1,387 → 1,124. 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 Kearney Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Kearney Township’s workforce comes from
Where Kearney Township clocks in
4% 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 Kearney Township to work
About 24% 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.
In Kearney Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kearney Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Kearney Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 912 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). 5.9% of Kearney Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kearney Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kearney Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 3,792nd of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 212 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 255 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,790 | Venice IL | 1,450 | $32K | 43.3% | 26.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,791 | Mannington WV | 1,910 | $54K | 10.5% | 3.2% | 8% | C− |
| 3,792 | Kearney Township MI | 1,866 | $72K | 10.5% | 2.6% | 20% | C− |
| 3,793 | Dansville NY | 1,816 | $69K | 11.4% | 3.5% | 4% | C− |
| 3,794 | Mecca Township OH | 2,315 | $54K | 12.7% | 3.9% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Kearney Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Kearney Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Forest Home Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kearney Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kearney Township | – | C− | C+ | 18 min | $72,153 |
| Forest Home Township | 4% | C | B+ | 22 min | $81,111 |
| Bellaire | under 2% | D | A− | 17 min | $55,789 |
| Echo Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 27 min | $70,833 |
| Custer Township | 2% | C | C− | 26 min | $83,750 |
| Chestonia Township | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Chestonia Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kearney 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 Kearney Township: questions
What is the median household income in Kearney Township?
$72,153 (±$8,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kearney Township?
10.5%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kearney Township?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kearney Township work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Central Lake Township (6%, 9 mi), East Jordan (5%, 12 mi), Traverse City (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Kearney Township walkable?
Kearney Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kearney 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 Kearney Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kearney 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.