Photo: Warren LeMay · CC BY-SA 2.0Hardly anyone in Brookville is out of work
Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns. Brookville grades B− for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in seven work in Brookville; the top destination outside it is Indianapolis (7%, 65 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Brookville apart on work
Brookville trades workers with the towns around it
Brookville has about as many jobs (1,116) as working residents (1,188), but they are mostly different people: 1,003 residents leave for work each day while 931 people come in. Only 17% of the jobs in Brookville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Brookville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. 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.
Where Brookville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brookville is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #297 of 593 in Indiana. Unemployment holds Brookville’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($55,938, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brookville could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
In and out of Brookville on a workday
On a workday 1,003 residents head out to work, 185 work right here, and 931 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 (0.94 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Brookville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brookville workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,205 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
Commuting out of Brookville: the destinations
Where Brookville clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
What Brookville’s employers do
1,116 jobs are based in Brookville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brookville, 2013 → 2023: 1,055 → 1,116. 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 Brookville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Brookville, by distance
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.
Brookville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brookville is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #15 of 593 in Indiana. Both inputs place Brookville 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 1,317 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). 16.8% of Brookville households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brookville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brookville places 2,075th of 4,797 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Clark Township IN | 3,026 | $138K | 5.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Swan Township IN | 2,327 | $112K | 0.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 198 | Wills Township IN | 2,111 | $113K | 1.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,073 | Hanover Township PA | 3,357 | $91K | 7.3% | 6.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,074 | Kent Acres DE | 2,388 | $92K | 14.2% | 4.5% | 1% | B− |
| 2,075 | Brookville IN | 2,663 | $56K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 16% | B− |
| 2,076 | Durand MI | 3,457 | $67K | 9.4% | 3.9% | 6% | B− |
| 2,077 | Mount Sterling OH | 2,051 | $73K | 12.5% | 4.8% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Brookville, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
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 Brookville: questions
What is the median household income in Brookville?
$55,938 (±$5,123) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brookville?
8.7%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brookville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brookville work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Indianapolis (7%, 65 mi), Batesville (6%, 14 mi), Cincinnati (6%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brookville walkable?
Brookville is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brookville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brookville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brookville
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.