Work & commute · Brookside

Work & commute in Brookside, DE

Most working residents leave Brookside for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Wilmington (9%), Newark (6%) and New Castle (3%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

228 of 6,659 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,431 Brookside residents head out of town to work, 228 work right here, and 4,002 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brookside.

6,431live here, work elsewhere

228live and work here

4,002work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brookside goes to work

Wilmington10.4 mi away

9%626

Newark2.8 mi away

6%431

New Castle7.5 mi away

3%230

Brookside (in town)right here

3%228

Philadelphia, PA38.6 mi away

2%136

Middletown15.5 mi away

2%126

Dover36.3 mi away

2%112

Glasgow5 mi away

2%102

Bear3.5 mi away

1%80

Elkton, MD7.4 mi away

1%75

Everywhere elseother towns and states

68%4,513

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.

65%

20%

65%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brookside is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brookside are

4,230 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

4,230 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Brookside residents hold

6,659 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+5%

Jobs based in Brookside, 2013 → 2023: 4,040 → 4,230. 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.