Household incomes in Stockbridge are lower than in 88% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Stockbridge C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. The poverty rate is 8.2%; Michigan has 13.2%. About one in ten stay in Stockbridge for work; outside it, Stockbridge Township is the main destination (13%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Stockbridge, in a few figures
The figures behind Stockbridge’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Stockbridge is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Stockbridge’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($49,545, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Stockbridge’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, Stockbridge could be anywhere from C− to B.
A commute of about 36 minutes in Stockbridge
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stockbridge workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 599 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 daily commute in and out of Stockbridge
On a workday 298 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 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 the trip to work from Stockbridge ends
Where Stockbridge clocks in
6% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Stockbridge
399 jobs are based in Stockbridge.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stockbridge, 2011 → 2021: 489 → 399. 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 Stockbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Stockbridge
About 21% 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 Stockbridge start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stockbridge is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 637 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.5% of Stockbridge households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Stockbridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stockbridge is 2,300th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 2,298 | Southeast Township IN | 1,515 | $96K | 4.0% | 3.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,299 | Bradford ME | 1,247 | $83K | 9.0% | 2.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,300 | Stockbridge MI | 1,291 | $50K | 8.2% | 4.5% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,301 | Caledonia MS | 1,117 | $83K | 10.2% | 1.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,302 | Bay City OR | 1,388 | $83K | 8.5% | 3.3% | 8% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Stockbridge, 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 Stockbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Stockbridge?
$49,545 (±$17,314) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stockbridge?
8.2%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stockbridge?
36 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stockbridge work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stockbridge Township (13%, 1 mi), Lansing (6%, 27 mi), Howell (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Stockbridge walkable?
Stockbridge is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stockbridge without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stockbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stockbridge
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.