Middleville has lower unemployment (3.1%) than 68% of U.S. towns
A typical one-way commute lasts 25 minutes (Michigan 24, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn Middleville B+; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in ten work in Middleville itself; outside it, Grand Rapids draws the most (15%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Middleville
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Middleville
Job access by car holds Middleville’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($73,625, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
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, Middleville could be anywhere from C to A.
A place that makes things: 66% of Middleville’s jobs are in goods
2,505 jobs are based in Middleville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Middleville, 2011 → 2021: 2,148 → 2,505. 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 Middleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Middleville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,792 residents head out to work, 213 work right here, and 2,292 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Middleville on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 per resident).
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 places Middleville commutes to
Where Middleville 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.
Commuting from Middleville: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Middleville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,977 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.
Where in the region Middleville works
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 Middleville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Middleville is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns, #241 of 701 in Michigan. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,234 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). 4.3% of Middleville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Middleville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Middleville is 1,298th among 3,908 U.S. towns of 3,100 to 5,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Franklin MI | 3,134 | $194K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Vergennes Township MI | 4,968 | $113K | 1.5% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Ann Arbor Township MI | 4,506 | $165K | 7.2% | 0.5% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,296 | Paint Township OH | 3,498 | $86K | 17.5% | 0.0% | 15% | B+ |
| 1,297 | Pleasure Point CA | 5,489 | $120K | 8.9% | 4.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,298 | Middleville MI | 4,407 | $74K | 7.7% | 3.1% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,299 | Aldan PA | 4,253 | $75K | 8.9% | 4.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,300 | Fall Creek Township IN | 4,685 | $69K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 11% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,908 | 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 Middleville, 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 Middleville: questions
What is the median household income in Middleville?
$73,625 (±$22,869) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Middleville?
7.7%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Middleville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Middleville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (15%, 19 mi), Thornapple Township (13%, 1 mi), Kentwood (7%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Middleville walkable?
Middleville is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Middleville 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 Middleville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Middleville
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.