Berrien Springs Courthouse · Photo: D.W.ENSIGN & CO. · Public domain26% of Oronoko Township’s residents are college students
For jobs and income Oronoko Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−). About one in five work in Oronoko Township; the top destination outside it is Grand Rapids (5%, 80 miles). Commuters spend 20 minutes getting to work on average; the Michigan average is 24, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Oronoko Township, in a few figures
How Oronoko Township earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Oronoko Township’s grade up (ahead of 56% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.0%, U.S. 11.9%).
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 14.0%, against 16.8% for all residents. Unemployment (3.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($80,556), since student households pull the household median down ($60,175).
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is three years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Oronoko Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
A workday in Oronoko Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,382 residents head out to work, 703 work right here, and 2,204 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 (0.94 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 towns that employ Oronoko Township’s residents
Where Oronoko Township clocks in
5% 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.
In Oronoko Township, services account for most jobs
2,907 jobs are based in Oronoko Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oronoko Township, 2011 → 2021: 3,092 → 2,907. 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 Oronoko Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Oronoko Township takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oronoko Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,569 commuters (the 14% 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.
Half of Oronoko Township commutes less than 13 miles
About 27% 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.
Oronoko Township is easy on foot, hard by bus
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.5% 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 4,164 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). 10.1% of Oronoko Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Oronoko Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oronoko Township next to U.S. towns of 6,400 to 12,200: 2,044th of 2,822 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 4 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Grosse Pointe Farms MI | 9,735 | $161K | 2.5% | 1.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Jamestown Township MI | 10,702 | $120K | 2.8% | 1.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,042 | Hampton Township MI | 9,581 | $52K | 17.9% | 3.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,043 | Urbana OH | 11,140 | $68K | 13.6% | 5.7% | 32% | C+ |
| 2,044 | Oronoko Township MI | 9,074 | $60K | 16.8% | 3.9% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,045 | St. Louis MI | 7,406 | $51K | 13.4% | 2.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,046 | Houghton MI | 8,560 | $43K | 40.1% | 10.3% | 41% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,822 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Oronoko Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
How Oronoko Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Royalton Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oronoko Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oronoko Township | – | C+ | A− | 20 min | $60,175 |
| Berrien Township | under 2% | B | C | 24 min | $79,148 |
| Sodus Township | under 2% | B | B | 17 min | $78,402 |
| Berrien Springs | under 2% | C | A | 18 min | $65,134 |
| Buchanan Township | under 2% | B− | D | 22 min | $66,783 |
| Baroda Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 20 min | $75,337 |
| Royalton Township | 2% | A | C− | 17 min | $128,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Oronoko 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.
- Students. 26% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Oronoko Township: questions
What is the median household income in Oronoko Township?
$60,175 (±$4,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oronoko Township?
16.8% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 14.0%. Michigan: 13.2%.
How long is the commute from Oronoko Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oronoko Township work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Rapids (5%, 80 mi), Benton Township (5%, 12 mi), South Bend (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Oronoko Township walkable?
Oronoko Township is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oronoko Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oronoko Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oronoko 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.