Boys' Club Building · Photo: rossograph · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Sidney Township works elsewhere
Employers in Sidney Township report 564 jobs, against 1,026 working residents. Sidney Township grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% stay in Sidney Township for work; outside it, Greenville is the main destination (12%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Sidney Township apart on work
Where Sidney Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sidney Township is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #669 of 701 in Michigan. The poverty rate holds Sidney Township’s grade up (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (8.0%, U.S. 5.2%).
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, poverty and unemployment, Sidney Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Sidney Township is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sidney Township, 2011 → 2021: 395 → 564. 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 Sidney Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Sidney Township
On a workday 1,002 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 540 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Sidney Township on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Commuting out of Sidney Township: the destinations
Where Sidney Township clocks in
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.
Sidney Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sidney Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 913 commuters (the 8% 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.
Sidney Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
In Sidney Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sidney Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #600 of 701 in Michigan. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 996 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). 2.1% of Sidney Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sidney Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Sidney Township is 4,215th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Franklin MI | 3,134 | $194K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Village of Grosse Pointe Shores MI | 2,533 | $190K | 2.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 216 | Milton Township MI | 3,187 | $119K | 3.2% | 2.3% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,213 | Timmonsville SC | 2,117 | $35K | 31.2% | 8.4% | 4% | D |
| 4,214 | Albion ME | 2,092 | $62K | 18.4% | 2.8% | 8% | D |
| 4,215 | Sidney Township MI | 2,651 | $60K | 14.7% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,216 | Hancock NY | 2,717 | $62K | 13.0% | 7.7% | 28% | D |
| 4,217 | Hawthorne NV | 2,809 | $67K | 14.5% | 9.0% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Sidney Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Sidney Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Stanton (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sidney Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney Township | – | D | D | 26 min | $60,050 |
| Montcalm Township | under 2% | C | D− | 25 min | $71,293 |
| Fairplain Township | under 2% | D | D | 27 min | $56,406 |
| Evergreen Township | 2% | C | D | 35 min | $59,144 |
| Douglass Township | under 2% | D | D | 27 min | $66,806 |
| Stanton | 5% | D− | B | 28 min | $48,750 |
| Eureka Township | 2% | A− | C | 27 min | $77,266 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sidney 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 Sidney Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sidney Township?
$60,050 (±$10,814) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sidney Township?
14.7%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sidney Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sidney Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (12%, 7 mi), Grand Rapids (10%, 33 mi), Stanton (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Sidney Township walkable?
Sidney Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sidney Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sidney Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sidney 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.