Photo: SilentMatt Psychedelic · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Brook Park
Working residents average 21 minutes each way; Ohio averages 23, the U.S. 26. The two grades for Brook Park are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 5% work in Brook Park; the top destination outside it is Cleveland (26%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Brook Park apart on work
Brook Park trades workers with the towns around it
Brook Park has about as many jobs (8,843) as working residents (9,180), but they are mostly different people: 8,702 residents leave for work each day while 8,365 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Brook Park are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Brook Park works one town over
41% of working residents work in a town that borders Brook Park: Cleveland (26%), Middleburg Heights (7%) and Parma (4%). Next door ↓
Brook Park makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Brook Park are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brook Park residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Brook Park draws workers from far and wide
The 8,843 jobs in Brook Park are filled from a wide area. Brook Park’s own residents hold 5% and the ten next-biggest home towns 38%; the other 57% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
The four measures behind Brook Park’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brook Park is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #386 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Brook Park’s grade up (ahead of 92% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($71,332, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brook Park could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who commutes out of Brook Park, and who commutes in
On a workday 8,702 residents head out to work, 478 work right here, and 8,365 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 (0.96 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.
42% of the jobs in Brook Park make or build things
8,843 jobs are based in Brook Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brook Park, 2013 → 2023: 9,361 → 8,843. 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.
The places Brook Park commutes to
Where Brook Park clocks in
26% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brook Park workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,344 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Brook Park
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.
Most trips from Brook Park start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brook Park is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #302 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,080 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 31% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Brook Park households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Brook Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brook Park is 880th of 1,915 U.S. towns of 13,000 to 25,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 878 | Canfield Township OH | 16,694 | $101K | 5.4% | 6.5% | 12% | B+ |
| 879 | Collingswood NJ | 14,386 | $90K | 9.5% | 5.5% | 6% | B+ |
| 880 | Brook Park OH | 18,195 | $71K | 8.9% | 3.7% | 5% | B+ |
| 881 | Schofield Barracks HI | 16,270 | $80K | 2.6% | 13.1% | 6% | B+ |
| 882 | Seabrook TX | 13,974 | $103K | 6.5% | 9.2% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,915 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Brook Park, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Brook Park and its neighbors: 41% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brook Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brook Park | – | B+ | B | 21 min | $71,332 |
| Cleveland | 26% | C− | A+ | 23 min | $40,801 |
| Middleburg Heights | 7% | A | A− | 22 min | $78,815 |
| Olmsted Township | under 2% | A | C | 27 min | $96,447 |
| Berea | 2% | B | A | 23 min | $74,926 |
| North Olmsted | 2% | A− | B+ | 24 min | $84,363 |
| Fairview Park | under 2% | B+ | A− | 23 min | $78,865 |
| Parma | 4% | B− | A− | 24 min | $69,295 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cleveland. Darker towns draw more of Brook Park’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 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 median household income in Brook Park?
$71,332 (±$7,585) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brook Park?
8.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brook Park?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brook Park work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (26%, 9 mi), Middleburg Heights (7%, 2 mi), Parma (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brook Park walkable?
Brook Park is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brook Park without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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. 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.