Work & commute · Brooklyn

Work & commute in Brooklyn, CT

Most working residents leave Brooklyn for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Killingly (15%), Putnam (7%) and Plainfield (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

329 of 3,836 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,507 Brooklyn residents head out of town to work, 329 work right here, and 1,095 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooklyn.

3,507live here, work elsewhere

329live and work here

1,095work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooklyn goes to work

Killingly6.3 mi away

15%584

Brooklyn (in town)right here

9%329

Putnam9.5 mi away

7%284

Plainfield7.1 mi away

5%189

Windham12 mi away

3%105

Worcester, MA34.2 mi away

3%100

Norwich17.9 mi away

2%95

Hartford37.3 mi away

2%86

Groton30.6 mi away

2%78

Mansfield14 mi away

2%78

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%1,908

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

How far

How far Brooklyn commutes

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

37%

25%

28%

37%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooklyn is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooklyn are

1,424 jobs are based in Brooklyn. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brooklyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brooklyn

1,424 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Brooklyn residents hold

3,836 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+26%

Jobs based in Brooklyn, 2013 → 2023: 1,126 → 1,424. 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.