Photo: User:Bryan Duggan · CC BY-SA 3.0Ortonville has higher household incomes than 76% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Ortonville; the top destination outside it is Brandon Township (8%, 2 miles). 8.9% of residents are in poverty, where Michigan as a whole has 13.2%. Ortonville grades A− 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
Work in Ortonville: the figures worth knowing
Fewer jobs are based in Ortonville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Ortonville fell from 812 in 2011 to 514 in 2021, −37%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Ortonville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across Michigan. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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 646 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Ortonville
Household income is its strongest input ($98,839, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Ortonville’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 three years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ortonville could be anywhere from B− to A.
The 514 jobs based in Ortonville
514 jobs are based in Ortonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ortonville, 2011 → 2021: 812 → 514. 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 Ortonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Ortonville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ortonville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 622 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.
Who works in Ortonville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 612 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 480 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Ortonville on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 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 Ortonville’s working residents head each day
Where Ortonville clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ortonville
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Ortonville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ortonville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ortonville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 725 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). 4.1% of Ortonville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ortonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Ortonville comes 694th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 139 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 692 | Lamartine WI | 1,781 | $95K | 6.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| 693 | Boulevard Gardens FL | 1,499 | $70K | 7.6% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 694 | Ortonville MI | 1,339 | $99K | 8.9% | 6.9% | 5% | A− |
| 695 | Miami Township IN | 1,312 | $100K | 3.5% | 5.3% | 2% | A− |
| 696 | Blackhoof Township MN | 1,016 | $105K | 4.1% | 1.4% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Ortonville, 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 Ortonville: questions
What is the median household income in Ortonville?
$98,839 (±$18,342) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ortonville?
8.9%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ortonville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ortonville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brandon Township (8%, 2 mi), Troy (8%, 24 mi), Auburn Hills (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Ortonville walkable?
Ortonville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ortonville without a car?
0% 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 Ortonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ortonville
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.