With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Reese works elsewhere
298 jobs are based in Reese for 539 working residents. Reese grades A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 4% stay in Reese for work; outside it, Frankenmuth is the main destination (18%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Reese’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Reese is better than 77% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Reese’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (11.3%) is left out: Reese’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, Reese could be anywhere from B to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Reese
On a workday 518 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 277 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Reese on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
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 places Reese commutes to
Where Reese clocks in
18% of workers
12% of workers
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.
The kinds of work in Reese
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reese, 2011 → 2021: 286 → 298. 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 Reese’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reese workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Reese
About 19% 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.
Getting around Reese: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Reese is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 588 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). 3.0% of Reese households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Reese’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Reese ranks 576th of 4,866 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 151 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 175 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 574 | Green Township IN | 1,682 | $82K | 6.4% | 1.4% | 2% | A− |
| 575 | Hoback WY | 1,316 | $147K | 1.7% | 1.8% | 11% | A− |
| 576 | Reese MI | 1,265 | $82K | 2.6% | 11.3% | 4% | A− |
| 577 | East Galena Township IL | 1,228 | $103K | 2.8% | 4.5% | 4% | A− |
| 578 | Green Lake Township MN | 1,622 | $108K | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Reese, 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 Reese: questions
What is the median household income in Reese?
$82,361 (±$12,278) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reese?
2.6%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reese?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reese work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Frankenmuth (18%, 9 mi), Saginaw (12%, 14 mi), Saginaw Township (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Reese walkable?
Reese is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Reese without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Reese, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reese
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.