Work & commute · Brookside

Work & commute in Brookside, AL

Most working residents leave Brookside for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (38%), Homewood (6%) and Hoover (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 538 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 537 Brookside residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brookside.

537live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

40work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brookside goes to work

Birmingham9.4 mi away

38%203

Homewood13.2 mi away

6%34

Hoover18.7 mi away

6%32

Gardendale5.3 mi away

4%21

Bessemer19 mi away

2%13

Irondale15 mi away

2%12

Vestavia Hills14.9 mi away

2%11

Tuscaloosa46 mi away

2%10

Huntsville74.3 mi away

2%9

Pelham23.1 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%185

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

How far

How far Brookside commutes

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

28%

50%

10%

12%

28%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brookside is a commuter town

0.08jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brookside are

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

Jobs based in Brookside

41 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Brookside residents hold

538 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+14%

Jobs based in Brookside, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 41. 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.