Brook Park has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The average commute takes 39 minutes each way, next to 23 for Minnesota and 26 for the U.S. Brook Park has 19 jobs for 44 working residents. Hardly any work in Brook Park; the top destination outside it is Hinckley (16%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Brook Park: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Brook Park on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Brook Park ends
Where Brook Park clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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 Brook Park’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brook Park, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 19. 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 Brook Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 39 minutes each way for Brook Park’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brook Park workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 49 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Brook Park
About 18% 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 Brook Park: questions
What is the poverty rate in Brook Park?
16.8%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brook Park?
39 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brook Park work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hinckley (16%, 9 mi), Mora (11%, 12 mi), Pine City (9%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brook Park 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 Brook Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brook Park
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.