Litchfield draws 1,820 commuters a day, with 3.0 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Litchfield is better than 22% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D−). There are 1,923 jobs in Litchfield, and 638 of its residents work somewhere. Measured by household income, Litchfield is behind 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Litchfield
Litchfield makes and builds things
92% of the jobs based in Litchfield are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Litchfield residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Litchfield has far more jobs than workers
Litchfield has 1,923 jobs, 3.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,700 people are in town, 92% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Litchfield pay better than its residents’ jobs
68% of the jobs based in Litchfield pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 49% of the jobs Litchfield residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Litchfield. 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 638 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Litchfield’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Litchfield’s grade up (11.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($53,182, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Litchfield’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, Litchfield could be anywhere from D to C+.
In Litchfield, 92% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Litchfield, 2011 → 2021: 1,709 → 1,923. 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 Litchfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Litchfield nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 535 residents head out to work and 103 work right here.
About 2,700 people are in Litchfield on a workday afternoon, 92% 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.
Where the people who work in Litchfield live
Where Litchfield clocks in
7% 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.
About 18 minutes to work from Litchfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Litchfield workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 741 commuters (the 2% 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 distance from Litchfield to work
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.
Most trips from Litchfield start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 758 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). 3.4% of Litchfield households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Litchfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Litchfield is 3,934th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 152 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,932 | Keno OR | 1,651 | $73K | 11.6% | 7.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,933 | Centreville MI | 1,374 | $60K | 13.9% | 6.1% | 8% | C− |
| 3,934 | Litchfield MI | 1,394 | $53K | 11.4% | 4.8% | 16% | C− |
| 3,935 | Miller SD | 1,313 | $58K | 7.6% | 0.0% | 35% | C− |
| 3,936 | Pine Bluffs WY | 1,111 | $68K | 10.6% | 0.7% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Litchfield, 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 Litchfield: questions
What is the median household income in Litchfield?
$53,182 (±$8,484) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Litchfield?
11.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Litchfield?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Litchfield work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsdale (8%, 10 mi), Coldwater (7%, 14 mi), Jonesville (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Litchfield walkable?
Litchfield is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Litchfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Litchfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Litchfield
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.