Muir Church of Christ · Photo: kennethaw88 · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lyons Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Lyons Township C+; getting around on foot earns it D. Lyons Township has 318 jobs for 1,362 working residents. Only 7% stay in Lyons Township for work; outside it, Ionia is the main destination (14%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lyons Township at work: what stands out
Lyons Township makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Lyons Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lyons Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Lyons Township is a place people come home to
There are 318 jobs based in Lyons Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lyons Township has about 2,500 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Lyons Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Lyons Township fell from 436 in 2011 to 318 in 2021, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
Inside Lyons Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lyons Township is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #469 of 701 in Michigan. The poverty rate holds Lyons Township’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns).
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, poverty and unemployment, Lyons Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Making and building: 54% of jobs based in Lyons Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lyons Township, 2011 → 2021: 436 → 318. 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 Lyons Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Lyons Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,261 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 217 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Lyons Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of Lyons Township: the destinations
Where Lyons 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.
From Lyons Township, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lyons Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,235 commuters (the 12% 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 many miles Lyons Township commutes
About 19% 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.
Few in Lyons Township walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,398 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). 3.9% of Lyons Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lyons Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lyons Township next to U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,800: 2,584th of 4,355 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 24 | Franklin MI | 3,134 | $194K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 124 | Ann Arbor Township MI | 4,506 | $165K | 7.2% | 0.5% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 144 | Dexter MI | 4,461 | $107K | 0.8% | 2.1% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,582 | Laguna Vista TX | 3,780 | $64K | 21.8% | 1.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,583 | Denmark Township MI | 2,704 | $71K | 7.0% | 6.7% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,584 | Lyons Township MI | 3,580 | $75K | 8.2% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,585 | Loramie Township OH | 2,695 | $89K | 11.6% | 6.1% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,586 | Tallapoosa GA | 3,141 | $63K | 13.7% | 1.0% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,355 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Lyons Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
The towns around Lyons Township
The biggest share goes to Ionia Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lyons Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons Township | – | C+ | D | 28 min | $75,294 |
| Ionia Township | 4% | C− | C− | 27 min | $60,189 |
| Dallas Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 26 min | $84,200 |
| North Plains Township | under 2% | D | C− | 27 min | $60,724 |
| Pewamo | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Portland Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Lebanon Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pewamo and Lebanon Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Portland Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lyons 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 Lyons Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lyons Township?
$75,294 (±$4,746) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lyons Township?
8.2%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lyons Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lyons Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ionia (14%, 9 mi), Grand Rapids (5%, 38 mi), Lansing (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Lyons Township walkable?
Lyons Township is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lyons Township without a car?
0% 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 Lyons Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lyons 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.