Avery Road-Galien River Bridge · Photo: Joyy Norris · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Weesaw Township works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home, where Michigan as a whole has 14%. Employers in Weesaw Township report 240 jobs; 772 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Weesaw Township are C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Weesaw Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Weesaw Township is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Weesaw Township’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($58,077, U.S. $80,734).
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, Weesaw Township could be anywhere from D to B.
Who commutes out of Weesaw Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 742 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 210 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Weesaw Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
9% of working residents work in Chikaming Township
Where Weesaw Township clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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, not services: 85% of the jobs in Weesaw Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weesaw Township, 2011 → 2021: 81 → 240. 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 Weesaw Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Weesaw Township’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weesaw Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 897 commuters (the 4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Weesaw Township
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Weesaw Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weesaw Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 2.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 939 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). 3.7% of Weesaw Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Weesaw Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Weesaw Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400: 3,267th of 5,343 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 203 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 244 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,265 | California Township IN | 2,156 | $67K | 7.2% | 7.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,266 | Watertown Township MI | 2,074 | $82K | 6.6% | 13.7% | <1% | C |
| 3,267 | Weesaw Township MI | 1,811 | $58K | 13.0% | 5.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,268 | Hamilton Township OH | 1,589 | $58K | 9.2% | 1.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,269 | Callahan FL | 1,830 | $57K | 14.7% | 1.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Weesaw Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
Next door to Weesaw Township
The biggest share goes to Chikaming Township (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Weesaw Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weesaw Township | – | C | C | 22 min | $58,077 |
| Galien Township | under 4% | C− | D− | 31 min | $55,625 |
| Chikaming Township | 9% | A− | C+ | 30 min | $83,908 |
| Baroda Township | under 4% | B+ | C− | 20 min | $75,337 |
| Buchanan Township | under 4% | B− | D | 22 min | $66,783 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Weesaw 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 Weesaw Township: questions
What is the median household income in Weesaw Township?
$58,077 (±$5,341) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weesaw Township?
13.0%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weesaw Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weesaw Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chikaming Township (9%, 6 mi), St. Joseph (6%, 17 mi), Lake Township (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Weesaw Township walkable?
Weesaw Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weesaw Township without a car?
<1% 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 Weesaw Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weesaw 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.