With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Victory Township works elsewhere
Employers in Victory Township report 281 jobs, and 495 of its residents work somewhere. Victory Township grades C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 4% work in Victory Township itself; outside it, Ludington draws the most (15%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Victory Township, in brief
What’s behind Victory Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Victory Township is better than 25% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Victory Township’s grade up (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Victory Township’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, Victory Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
How many miles Victory Township commutes
About 39% 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.
Who commutes out of Victory Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 261 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Victory Township on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 Victory Township commutes to
Where Victory Township clocks in
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.
Services make up most of the work in Victory Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Victory Township, 2011 → 2021: 77 → 281. 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 Victory Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Victory Township’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Victory Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 598 commuters (the 9% 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.
Getting around Victory Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Victory Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 660 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). 3.8% of Victory Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Victory Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Victory Township is 3,716th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 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+ |
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| 93 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 152 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,714 | Ross Township IL | 1,418 | $64K | 10.6% | 2.6% | 2% | C− |
| 3,715 | Washington Township IN | 1,579 | $64K | 14.6% | 3.5% | 4% | C− |
| 3,716 | Victory Township MI | 1,415 | $66K | 9.4% | 8.2% | 4% | C− |
| 3,717 | Edson WI | 1,121 | $81K | 19.9% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,718 | Shoshone ID | 1,767 | $69K | 10.7% | 8.6% | 10% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Victory Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Victory Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Victory Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory Township | – | C− | C | 21 min | $65,938 |
| Hamlin Township | under 2% | B | D− | 18 min | $80,919 |
| Amber Township | 4% | C+ | B− | 17 min | $70,515 |
| Grant Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Sherman Township | under 2% | D | C+ | 21 min | $75,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Grant Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Amber Township. Darker towns draw more of Victory 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 Victory Township: questions
What is the median household income in Victory Township?
$65,938 (±$10,771) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Victory Township?
9.4%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Victory Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Victory Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ludington (15%, 8 mi), Pere Marquette Township (11%, 8 mi), Manistee (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Victory Township walkable?
Victory Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Victory Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Victory Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Victory 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.