Most of Kincheloe commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 1% of workers, where Michigan as a whole has 14%. There are 111 jobs in Kincheloe, against 788 working residents. Only 4% work in Kincheloe; the top destination outside it is Sault Ste. Marie (33%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kincheloe and work: the main findings
Kincheloe is a place people come home to
There are 111 jobs based in Kincheloe, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kincheloe has about 1,800 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Kincheloe and Sault Ste. Marie trade workers both ways
Sault Ste. Marie is the top workplace for Kincheloe residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Kincheloe come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Kincheloe workers earn over $40,000 a year
33% of Kincheloe’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 17% 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 788 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Kincheloe
On a workday 753 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 76 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Kincheloe on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Kincheloe’s working residents head each day
Where Kincheloe clocks in
33% of workers
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.
Most jobs in Kincheloe are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kincheloe, 2011 → 2021: 184 → 111. 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 Kincheloe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Kincheloe spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kincheloe workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 904 commuters (the 1% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Kincheloe
About 27% 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.
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 Kincheloe: questions
What is the median household income in Kincheloe?
$57,644 (±$12,531) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kincheloe?
25.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kincheloe?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kincheloe work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sault Ste. Marie (33%, 15 mi), Kinross Township (19%, 11 mi), Bay Mills Township (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Kincheloe without a car?
2% 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 Kincheloe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kincheloe
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.