Willamette Station Site, Methodist Mission in Oregon · Photo: Katr67 · Public domainBrooks draws 736 commuters a day, with 3.5 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any stay in Brooks for work; outside it, Salem is the main destination (33%, 9 miles). 738 jobs are based in Brooks; 210 of its residents have a job. 3% of workers have no commute at all (Oregon 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Brooks
Brooks has far more jobs than workers
Brooks has 738 jobs, 3.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 80% more than the 660 who live here. Day and night ↓
Brooks makes and builds things
81% of the jobs based in Brooks are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brooks residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
Brooks and Salem trade workers both ways
Salem is the top workplace for Brooks residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Brooks come from (34% of its jobs). 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; with 210 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Brooks: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 208 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Brooks on a workday afternoon, 80% more 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.
Making and building: 81% of jobs based in Brooks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 258 → 738. 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 Brooks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Brooks
Where Brooks clocks in
33% 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.
Commuting from Brooks: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brooks workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 288 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Oregon: 80% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Brooks to work
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 Brooks: questions
What is the poverty rate in Brooks?
8.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brooks?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brooks work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (33%, 9 mi), Portland (9%, 37 mi), Woodburn (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brooks without a car?
2% 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 Brooks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brooks
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.