Work, pay and getting to work in East Brooklyn
4% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Hardly any work in East Brooklyn; the top destination outside it is Joliet (13%, 24 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 29 minutes, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in East Brooklyn by day
On a workday 31 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 28 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 (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places East Brooklyn commutes to
Where East Brooklyn clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workers
10% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in East Brooklyn
28 jobs are based in East Brooklyn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 East Brooklyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From East Brooklyn, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Brooklyn workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 commuters (the 4% 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.
How far East Brooklyn’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
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 East Brooklyn: questions
What is the median household income in East Brooklyn?
$83,750 (±$41,138) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Brooklyn?
16.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Brooklyn?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Brooklyn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Joliet (13%, 24 mi), Coal City (10%, 8 mi), Channahon (10%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around East Brooklyn 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 East Brooklyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Brooklyn
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.