A job hub: Brookfield Township has 3.0 jobs per working resident, and 1,231 people come in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers (Illinois 16%). Brookfield Township has 1,244 jobs; 418 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Brookfield Township are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Brookfield Township: the figures worth knowing
Brookfield Township is where the jobs are
Brookfield Township has 1,244 jobs, 3.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,900 people are in town, 78% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
81% of the jobs in Brookfield Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Brookfield Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
91% of the jobs based in Brookfield Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 60% of the jobs Brookfield Township residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Brookfield Township. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 418 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Brookfield Township
On income, poverty and job access, Brookfield Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Brookfield Township’s grade up ($83,958, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (21.7%) is left out: Brookfield Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brookfield Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Brookfield Township nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 405 residents head out to work and 13 work right here.
About 1,900 people are in Brookfield Township on a workday afternoon, 78% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
91% of the jobs in Brookfield Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brookfield Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,117 → 1,244. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brookfield Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Brookfield Township’s workers come from
Where Brookfield Township clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
How long Brookfield Township spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brookfield Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 317 commuters (the 0% 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 commute from Brookfield Township, by distance
About 29% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Brookfield Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brookfield Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Brookfield Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 317 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). 0.0% of Brookfield Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brookfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Brookfield Township ranks: 1,378th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,376 | Kibler AR | 1,029 | $59K | 9.5% | 3.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,377 | Ridgway CO | 1,324 | $84K | 7.2% | 8.5% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,378 | Brookfield Township IL | 1,060 | $84K | 12.3% | 21.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,379 | Wyalusing Township PA | 1,226 | $90K | 9.7% | 3.9% | 19% | C+ |
| 1,380 | Algonquin MD | 1,074 | $77K | 10.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Brookfield Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
10% of Brookfield Township works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Seneca (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brookfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Township | – | C+ | D− | 27 min | $83,958 |
| Manlius Township | under 3% | C | B | 30 min | $68,967 |
| Marseilles | 4% | D | B− | 31 min | $58,217 |
| Seneca | 6% | C+ | B+ | 26 min | $86,830 |
| Allen Township | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Grand Rapids Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Allen Township and Grand Rapids Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brookfield Township’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 2024, 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 Brookfield Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brookfield Township?
$83,958 (±$9,099) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brookfield Township?
12.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brookfield Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brookfield Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ottawa (8%, 11 mi), Morris (7%, 15 mi), Seneca (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Brookfield Township walkable?
Brookfield Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brookfield Township 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 Brookfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brookfield Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.