Canon School · Photo: Yolorose · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Brooks has 272.9 jobs per working resident, and 2,181 people come in to work
Employers in Brooks report 2,183 jobs for 8 working residents. About one in four stay in Brooks for work; outside it, Santa Cruz is the main destination (13%, 122 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Brooks, and who commutes in
On a workday 6 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Brooks live
Where Brooks clocks in
13% of workers
13% 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.
Most jobs in Brooks are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 2,543 → 2,183. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brooks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Brooks commutes less than 8 miles
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Brooks and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brooks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | – | — | — | — | — |
| Tancred | under 13% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tancred: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brooks’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 2023, 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 Brooks: questions
Where do people who live in Brooks work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Cruz (13%, 122 mi), Sacramento (13%, 38 mi), Esparto (13%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brooks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brooks
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.