Work & commute · Mountain Brook

Work & commute in Mountain Brook, AL

Most working residents leave Mountain Brook for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (42%), Homewood (9%) and Hoover (7%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

646 of 8,560 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,914 Mountain Brook residents head out of town to work, 646 work right here, and 8,388 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain Brook.

7,914live here, work elsewhere

646live and work here

8,388work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain Brook goes to work

Birmingham4.4 mi away

42%3,615

Homewood4.9 mi away

9%789

Mountain Brook (in town)right here

8%646

Hoover9.1 mi away

7%558

Vestavia Hills2 mi away

6%486

Irondale5.5 mi away

2%173

Huntsville83.4 mi away

1%109

Montgomery83.5 mi away

1%107

Tuscaloosa49.1 mi away

1%106

Pelham11.1 mi away

1%104

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%1,867

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

How far

How far Mountain Brook commutes

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

77%

11%

77%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain Brook is balanced between jobs and homes

1.06jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain Brook are

9,034 jobs are based in Mountain Brook. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain Brook’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain Brook

9,034 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Mountain Brook residents hold

8,560 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month76%

+5%

Jobs based in Mountain Brook, 2013 → 2023: 8,638 → 9,034. 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.