For about half of its working residents, Brimfield is a commute to Peoria
The average commute takes 25 minutes each way; Illinois averages 28, the U.S. 26. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Illinois. Only 2% work in Brimfield itself; outside it, Peoria draws the most (46%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Brimfield stands out on work
Nearly half of Brimfield works in Peoria
161 working residents, 46%, have their main job in Peoria, 15 miles away. That’s 23 times as many as work in Brimfield itself. The commute map ↓
Brimfield makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Brimfield are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brimfield residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
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 353 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Brimfield to work: where people go
Where Brimfield clocks in
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 42% of Brimfield’s jobs are in goods
397 jobs are based in Brimfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brimfield, 2013 → 2023: 423 → 397. 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 Brimfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Brimfield for work, and who comes in
On a workday 347 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 391 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 (1.12 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brimfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 340 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Brimfield to work
About 22% 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.
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 Brimfield: questions
What is the median household income in Brimfield?
$70,000 (±$10,353) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brimfield?
11.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brimfield?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brimfield work?
2% work in town.
Can you get around Brimfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brimfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brimfield
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.