Photo: Logan Rickert · CC BY 2.0Unemployment in Brookville (2.6%) is lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income B: better than 63% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #458 of 992 in Ohio.
Walkability B+: more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns · #197 of 993 in Ohio.
Household incomes here are lower than in 68% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 22 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Brookville; the top destination outside it is Dayton (15%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Brookville
Fewer jobs are based in Brookville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Brookville fell from 3,096 in 2013 to 2,093 in 2023, −32%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Brookville makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Brookville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brookville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Few Brookville workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Brookville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brookville is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #458 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Brookville’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($63,598, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brookville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Brookville makes things: 37% of its jobs are in goods
2,093 jobs are based in Brookville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brookville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brookville, 2013 → 2023: 3,096 → 2,093. 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.
About 22 minutes each way, about the OH average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brookville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,532 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 2,204 residents head out to work, 280 work right here, and 1,813 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 (0.84 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.
15% of working residents work in Dayton
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Brookville clocks in
15% of workers
3% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Brookville commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Brookville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brookville is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #197 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,642 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 0.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.9% of Brookville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brookville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brookville is 1,431st of 3,394 U.S. towns of 4,200 to 8,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Brookville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Independence OH | 7,456 | $116K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,429 | Maize KS | 7,853 | $72K | 12.4% | 2.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,430 | Palmyra NJ | 7,664 | $90K | 10.2% | 6.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,431 | Brookville OH | 5,999 | $64K | 8.8% | 2.6% | 11% | B |
| 1,432 | Kimberly ID | 5,798 | $98K | 19.3% | 0.0% | 8% | B |
| 1,433 | Wheatland NY | 4,798 | $83K | 11.2% | 4.0% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,394 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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.
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?
$63,598 (±$9,951) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brookville?
8.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brookville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brookville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (15%, 12 mi), Vandalia (3%, 12 mi), Kettering (3%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brookville walkable?
Brookville is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brookville without a car?
0% 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 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.