Photo: TenPoundHammer · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Pinconning are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Pinconning is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (C). Below the poverty line: 12.1% of residents, against 13.2% across Michigan. About one in ten work in Pinconning itself; outside it, Midland draws the most (8%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Pinconning, in brief
What’s behind Pinconning’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pinconning’s grade.
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Pinconning’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 rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pinconning could be anywhere from D to B.
Inside Pinconning’s 659 jobs
659 jobs are based in Pinconning.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinconning, 2011 → 2021: 665 → 659. 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 Pinconning’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Pinconning: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 397 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 609 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Pinconning on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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 Pinconning’s working residents head each day
Where Pinconning clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
About 28 minutes each way, longer than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinconning workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 365 commuters (the 19% 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.
Where in the region Pinconning works
About 24% 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.
Most trips from Pinconning start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 451 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). 8.0% of Pinconning households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Pinconning’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,511th of 4,312: where Pinconning ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 271 | Petersburg MI | 1,152 | $83K | 1.8% | 1.7% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 319 | Milan Township MI | 1,540 | $96K | 6.0% | 4.1% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,509 | Riverside UT | 1,135 | $73K | 11.6% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,510 | Springwater WI | 1,273 | $71K | 10.1% | 5.6% | 6% | C |
| 2,511 | Pinconning MI | 1,176 | $65K | 12.1% | 4.2% | 11% | C |
| 2,512 | Wellston MO | 1,580 | $45K | 35.4% | 12.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,513 | Hinton Township MI | 1,111 | $60K | 6.5% | 4.2% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Pinconning, 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 Pinconning: questions
What is the median household income in Pinconning?
$64,565 (±$20,469) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinconning?
12.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinconning?
28 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinconning work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Midland (8%, 21 mi), Saginaw (8%, 30 mi), Bay City (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Pinconning walkable?
Pinconning is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinconning without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pinconning, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinconning
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.