Hance House · Photo: kennethaw88 · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Olivet are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Olivet itself; outside it, Lansing draws the most (13%, 26 miles). Below the poverty line: 14.6% of residents (Michigan 13.2%). The two grades for Olivet are C for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Olivet stands out on work
Olivet’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Olivet is Lansing, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (66) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Olivet are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 24 across Michigan. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Michigan worker. Time on the road ↓
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 512 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Olivet’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Olivet is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Olivet’s grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,722, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (12.8%) is left out: Olivet’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, Olivet could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Short hops and long hauls from Olivet
About 23% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Olivet
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Olivet workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 746 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.
The daily flow of workers through Olivet
On a workday 469 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 579 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 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.
Where Olivet’s working residents head each day
Where Olivet clocks in
13% of workers
10% 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.
The kinds of work in Olivet
622 jobs are based in Olivet.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Olivet, 2011 → 2021: 498 → 622. 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 Olivet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Olivet is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Olivet is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 861 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Olivet households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Olivet’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Olivet comes 3,366th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 164 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 204 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,364 | Wilsonville AL | 2,015 | $72K | 16.4% | 17.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,365 | Stuart IA | 1,882 | $65K | 14.0% | 4.7% | 7% | C |
| 3,366 | Olivet MI | 1,525 | $55K | 14.6% | 12.8% | 8% | C |
| 3,367 | Ewing Township IL | 1,310 | $74K | 14.3% | 4.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,368 | Bridgewater NH | 1,185 | $82K | 11.9% | 3.6% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Olivet, 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 Olivet: questions
What is the median household income in Olivet?
$54,722 (±$15,385) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Olivet?
14.6%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Olivet?
18 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Olivet work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lansing (13%, 26 mi), Charlotte (10%, 10 mi), Marshall (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Olivet walkable?
Olivet is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 17% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Olivet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Olivet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Olivet
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.