With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of South Boardman works elsewhere
Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole. Employers in South Boardman report 96 jobs, and 190 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in South Boardman for work; outside it, Kalkaska Township is the main destination (22%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
South Boardman by day and by night
On a workday 189 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 95 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in South Boardman 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.
The places South Boardman commutes to
Where South Boardman clocks in
15% 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 South Boardman
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in South Boardman, 2011 → 2021: 32 → 96. 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 South Boardman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From South Boardman, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of South Boardman workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 249 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.
The distance from South Boardman to work
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.
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 South Boardman: questions
What is the median household income in South Boardman?
$83,750 (±$8,932) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in South Boardman?
11.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from South Boardman?
31 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in South Boardman work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kalkaska Township (22%, 8 mi), Traverse City (15%, 18 mi), Garfield Township (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around South Boardman without a car?
0% 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 South Boardman, from the people who make the trip.
More of South Boardman
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.