Work & commute · Brook Highland

Work & commute in Brook Highland, AL

Most working residents leave Brook Highland for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (32%), Hoover (14%) and Homewood (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 3,268 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,253 Brook Highland residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 632 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brook Highland.

3,253live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

632work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brook Highland goes to work

Birmingham8.9 mi away

32%1,048

Hoover8.4 mi away

14%469

Homewood7.4 mi away

5%179

Vestavia Hills3.6 mi away

5%158

Pelham7.9 mi away

3%105

Bessemer17.2 mi away

3%88

Montgomery79.1 mi away

2%60

Mountain Brook4.7 mi away

2%57

Huntsville87 mi away

2%51

Tuscaloosa50.7 mi away

1%47

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%1,006

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Brook Highland commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

63%

20%

14%

63%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brook Highland is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Brook Highland are

647 jobs are based in Brook Highland. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brook Highland’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brook Highland

647 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Brook Highland residents hold

3,268 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−24%

Jobs based in Brook Highland, 2013 → 2023: 852 → 647. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.