Photo: O. David Redwine · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Midland Township works elsewhere
Midland Township has 367 jobs, and 975 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Midland Township B; getting around on foot earns it C+. Only 2% stay in Midland Township for work; outside it, Midland is the main destination (40%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Midland Township, in brief
The figures behind Midland Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Midland Township is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Midland Township’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
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, Midland Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Commuting out of Midland Township: the destinations
Where Midland Township clocks in
40% of workers
5% of workers
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.
Who works in Midland Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 957 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 349 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Midland Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Goods, not services: 33% of the jobs in Midland Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Midland Township, 2011 → 2021: 483 → 367. 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 Midland Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Midland Township spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Midland Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 930 commuters (the 13% 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.
Midland Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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.
The commute in Midland Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Midland Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,072 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). 0.5% of Midland Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Midland Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Midland Township is 1,586th of 5,641 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 98 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
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| 139 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 225 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,584 | Ravenel SC | 2,728 | $83K | 19.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,585 | Sharon Township IL | 2,814 | $107K | 15.1% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| 1,586 | Midland Township MI | 2,201 | $92K | 4.4% | 5.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,587 | Antrim NH | 2,757 | $87K | 7.6% | 1.9% | 6% | B |
| 1,588 | Knox NY | 2,623 | $124K | 6.3% | 5.5% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Midland Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Work next door: 42% of Midland Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Midland Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Township | – | B | C+ | 23 min | $91,518 |
| Midland | 40% | B− | B | 20 min | $73,325 |
| Homer Township | under 2% | B− | D | 31 min | $117,295 |
| Ingersoll Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 29 min | $99,063 |
| Larkin Township | 2% | A | C+ | 19 min | $143,427 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Midland. Darker towns draw more of Midland 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 Midland Township: questions
What is the median household income in Midland Township?
$91,518 (±$14,100) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Midland Township?
4.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Midland Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Midland Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Midland (40%, 2 mi), Saginaw (5%, 19 mi), Saginaw Township (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Midland Township walkable?
Midland Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Midland Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Midland Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Midland 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.