Photo: TheKuLeR · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Orion Township earn more than those in 88% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Orion Township for work; outside it, Auburn Hills is the main destination (12%, 6 miles). Poverty touches 4.6% of residents, next to 13.2% for Michigan as a whole. Jobs and income earn Orion Township A; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Orion Township, in a few figures
What’s behind Orion Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($118,801, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment 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 fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Orion Township could be anywhere from A− to A.
Commuting out of Orion Township: the destinations
Where Orion Township clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
Orion Township by day and by night
On a workday 16,034 residents head out to work, 1,653 work right here, and 9,445 people come in from elsewhere.
About 32,000 people are in Orion Township on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
What Orion Township’s employers do
11,098 jobs are based in Orion Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orion Township, 2011 → 2021: 8,917 → 11,098. 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 Orion Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Orion Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orion Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16,061 commuters (the 21% 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 far it is to work from Orion Township
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 Orion Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orion Township is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #327 of 701 in Michigan. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.8% across Michigan.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 20,215 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). 3.7% of Orion Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Orion Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Orion Township next to U.S. towns of 27,000 to 52,000: 231st of 1,113 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Northville Township MI | 31,399 | $151K | 3.1% | 2.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Bloomfield Township MI | 43,904 | $163K | 4.8% | 3.6% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Independence Township MI | 37,725 | $115K | 4.3% | 2.9% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 229 | Shakopee MN | 49,366 | $107K | 5.9% | 3.7% | 17% | A |
| 230 | Bluffton SC | 36,807 | $111K | 4.3% | 2.2% | 19% | A |
| 231 | Orion Township MI | 38,882 | $119K | 4.6% | 4.2% | 9% | A |
| 232 | Menlo Park CA | 32,713 | $210K | 5.8% | 4.8% | 12% | A |
| 233 | Lancaster NY | 45,075 | $89K | 5.2% | 2.4% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,113 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Orion Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
19% of Orion Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Orion Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Township | – | A | C+ | 26 min | $118,801 |
| Oakland Township | under 3% | A+ | C+ | 28 min | $166,538 |
| Auburn Hills | 12% | B | B | 22 min | $84,375 |
| Independence Township | under 3% | A | C | 29 min | $114,699 |
| Oxford Township | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 30 min | $114,076 |
| Waterford Township | 3% | B | C+ | 27 min | $77,101 |
| Rochester Hills | 4% | A | B | 24 min | $120,694 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Auburn Hills. Darker towns draw more of Orion 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 Orion Township: questions
What is the median household income in Orion Township?
$118,801 (±$9,065) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orion Township?
4.6%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orion Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orion Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn Hills (12%, 6 mi), Troy (9%, 13 mi), Rochester Hills (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Orion Township walkable?
Orion Township is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orion Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orion Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orion 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.