Huron
Tuscola
REGION 6 LABOR SHED
Eaton
Oakland Ingham Macomb Livingston
Wayne Jackson Washtenaw Lenawee Hillsdale
Introduction The Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN) partnership is a collaboration of seven Michigan Works! Agencies (MWAs) and ten community colleges across a 19-county region in Michigan. The counties in the WIN partnership include: Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Huron, Ingham, Jackson, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Saint Clair, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Tuscola, Washtenaw, and Wayne, along with the City of Detroit. The WIN partnership region’s labor shed highlights why, when it comes to talent, we must think regionally: The workforce is mobile. Although 90.4% of the region’s workforce live and work1 in the 19-county area, not all residents work in their home county. It is not uncommon for workers to commute one or two counties over for work. This means that the residents in every county should be ready for the job demands of employers hiring throughout southeast Michigan. This document provides detailed information on where employees in the area commute to and from each day for work, how far they travel, along with other information about workers and businesses in the area. For more detail on the labor market, please see WIN’s Quarterly Labor Market Report publications.
Where Residents Work In 2019, Region 6’s workforce consisted of 264,271 residents. 132,627 (50.2%) of the residents lived and worked within region, while the remaining 131,644 residents (49.8%) traveled outside the region for work. Since 2017, the number of residents that traveled outside of the region for work decreased by 35,808 (21.4%) individuals, from 167,452 to 131,644 individuals. In 2019, 44.0% of the region’s workforce (116,370 individuals) traveled more than 25 miles to their place of employment compared to 45.5% (151,644 individuals) in 2017. Genessee County was the most popular destination within Region 6 for residents to find employment in 2019, with 81,592 residents or 30.9% of the region’s workforce commuting, followed by 39,786 residents (15.1% of the region’s workforce) that traveled to Oakland County.
Sanilac
Genesee Lapeer St. Clair Clinton Shiawassee
12,630 BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS IN 2019
28,494 JOBS POSTED ONLINE IN 2019
132,627
WORKERS THAT LIVED AND WORKED IN REGION 6
116,370
RESIDENTS TRAVELING MORE THAN 25 MILES TO WORK
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Monroe