Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Most of Brook Forest commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 49% of workers (Colorado 21%). 31 jobs are based in Brook Forest, against 347 working residents. Hardly any work in Brook Forest; the top destination outside it is Denver (25%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Brook Forest at work: what stands out
Brook Forest is a place people come home to
There are 31 jobs based in Brook Forest, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brook Forest has about 39 people in it, 89% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Brook Forest’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Brook Forest is Denver, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (88) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Brook Forest
49% of Brook Forest workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 347 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Brook Forest
On a workday 347 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 39 people are in Brook Forest on a workday afternoon, 89% 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 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Brook Forest commutes
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.
Getting to work from Brook Forest takes about 43 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brook Forest workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 86 commuters (the 49% who work from home are left out). Across Colorado: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where Brook Forest’s working residents head each day
Where Brook Forest clocks in
25% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Brook Forest
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brook Forest, 2013 → 2023: 49 → 31. 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 Brook Forest’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Brook Forest: questions
What is the median household income in Brook Forest?
$116,528 (±$1,389) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brook Forest?
9.3%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brook Forest?
43 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 49% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brook Forest work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denver (25%, 30 mi), Lakewood (12%, 17 mi), Evergreen (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brook Forest without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brook Forest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brook Forest
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.