East Main Street Commercial Historic District · Photo: Blastoids · CC BY-SA 3.0Brooklet has lower unemployment (1.4%) than 91% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Brooklet; the top destination outside it is Statesboro (27%, 7 miles). Jobs and income earn Brooklet C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Brooklet stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Brooklet
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brooklet is better than 44% of U.S. towns, #119 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Brooklet’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (18.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brooklet could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Where people from Brooklet work
Where Brooklet clocks in
Lines 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.
How many people are in Brooklet by day
On a workday 787 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 597 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Brooklet: 627 jobs
627 jobs are based in Brooklet.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brooklet, 2013 → 2023: 544 → 627. 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 Brooklet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Brooklet
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brooklet workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 921 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% 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.
Brooklet’s commute, mile by mile
About 19% 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.
Most of Brooklet commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brooklet is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #184 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 977 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). 13.4% of Brooklet households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brooklet’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brooklet places 2,501st of 4,868 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 113 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 198 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,499 | Fell Township PA | 2,370 | $61K | 9.4% | 2.7% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,500 | Holly Lake Ranch TX | 2,956 | $70K | 7.0% | 11.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,501 | Brooklet GA | 2,525 | $77K | 18.5% | 1.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,502 | Alamo TN | 2,354 | $54K | 16.5% | 1.0% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,503 | Greenbush Township MI | 2,150 | $72K | 8.0% | 5.8% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Brooklet, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
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 Brooklet: questions
What is the median household income in Brooklet?
$77,125 (±$23,878) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brooklet?
18.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brooklet?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brooklet work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Statesboro (27%, 7 mi), Savannah (10%, 38 mi), Pooler (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brooklet walkable?
Brooklet is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brooklet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brooklet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brooklet
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. 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.