Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Households in Stevensville earn less than those in 67% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 7.5% of residents; Michigan has 13.2%. For jobs and income Stevensville is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 2% stay in Stevensville for work; outside it, Benton Township is the main destination (16%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Stevensville apart
Stevensville and Benton Township trade workers both ways
Benton Township is the top workplace for Stevensville residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Stevensville come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stevensville makes and builds things
55% of the jobs based in Stevensville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Stevensville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
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 485 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Stevensville
The poverty rate holds Stevensville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($64,125, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Stevensville’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, Stevensville could be anywhere from C to A−.
Where people from Stevensville work
Where Stevensville clocks in
10% 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.
Goods jobs make up 55% of work in Stevensville
696 jobs are based in Stevensville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stevensville, 2011 → 2021: 642 → 696. 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 Stevensville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Stevensville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 476 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 687 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Stevensville on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 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.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Michigan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stevensville workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 490 commuters (the 7% 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.
How far Stevensville’s workers travel
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.
In Stevensville, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% 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 529 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). 3.1% of Stevensville households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stevensville’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,396th of 4,312: where Stevensville 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,394 | Spring Township KS | 1,472 | $94K | 15.1% | 6.1% | 2% | B− |
| 1,395 | Somerset Township OH | 1,217 | $77K | 1.9% | 17.3% | 1% | B− |
| 1,396 | Stevensville MI | 1,154 | $64K | 7.5% | 3.2% | 2% | B− |
| 1,397 | Brady Township PA | 1,184 | $79K | 8.6% | 4.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,398 | Greenfield Township IN | 1,363 | $65K | 3.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Stevensville, 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 Stevensville: questions
What is the median household income in Stevensville?
$64,125 (±$15,054) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stevensville?
7.5%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stevensville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stevensville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Benton Township (16%, 10 mi), Lincoln Township (11%, 1 mi), St. Joseph (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Stevensville walkable?
Stevensville is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stevensville 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 Stevensville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stevensville
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.