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Work & commute · Brooks

Work & commute in Brooks, CA

About one in 4 of Brooks’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Santa Cruz (13%), Sacramento (13%) and Esparto (13%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
25%
2 of 8 working residents
Typical commute
8 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
— 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 6 Brooks residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 2,181 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooks.

6live here, work elsewhere
2live and work here
2,181work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Brooks goes to work

DixonDavisSanta CruzWoodlandYuba CityWest SacramentoFairfieldElk GroveVacavilleSacramentoTancredBrooksEspartoCameron ParkSanta CruzSacramentoEspartoCameron ParkBrooks
1
Brooks (in town)right here
25%2
2
Santa Cruz121.9 mi away
13%1
3
Sacramento38.4 mi away
13%1
4
Esparto7.3 mi away
13%1
5
Cameron Park62.6 mi away
13%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
25%2

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

How far

How far Brooks commutes

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

50%Under 10 mi
0%10–24 mi
25%25–50 mi
25%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Brooks is a job hub

272.88jobs per working resident
A job hub

272.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooks are

2,183 jobs are based in Brooks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brooks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brooks

2,183 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)0%
Trade, transport & utilities0%
Services (health, schools, offices…)100%
$1,250 a month or less2%
$1,251–$3,333 a month14%
Over $3,333 a month84%

Jobs Brooks residents hold

8 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)0%
Trade, transport & utilities13%
Services (health, schools, offices…)88%
$1,250 a month or less25%
$1,251–$3,333 a month25%
Over $3,333 a month50%
−14%

Jobs based in Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 2,543 → 2,183. 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.

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