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Work & commute · Brookside

Work & commute in Brookside, IL

Most working residents leave Brookside for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Centralia (18%), Carlyle (4%) and Chicago (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
6%
72 of 1,264 working residents
Typical commute
23 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
17 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
5%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,192 Brookside residents head out of town to work, 72 work right here, and 2,243 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brookside.

1,192live here, work elsewhere
72live and work here
2,243work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Brookside goes to work

WamacBreeseNashvilleCarlyleChesterSalemCentraliaHerrinMount VernonChicagoSpringfieldSt. LouisMeridianRaccoonIrvingtonSandovalCentraliaLakeBrooksideCentraliaCarlyleChicagoCentraliaMount VernonNashvilleSpringfieldSt. LouisLakeBrookside
1
Centralia5.3 mi away
18%228
2
Carlyle10.4 mi away
4%47
3
Chicago242.3 mi away
4%45
4
Centralia7.7 mi away
3%44
5
Mount Vernon22.3 mi away
3%38
6
Nashville15.8 mi away
3%35
7
Springfield89.9 mi away
3%33
8
St. Louis, MO55.7 mi away
2%31
9
Lake5.5 mi away
2%31
10
Brookside (in town)right here
2%31
Everywhere elseother towns and states
55%701

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.

30%Under 10 mi
21%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
34%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Brookside is a job hub

1.83jobs per working resident
A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brookside are

2,315 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

2,315 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)2%
Trade, transport & utilities32%
Services (health, schools, offices…)67%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Brookside residents hold

1,264 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)20%
Trade, transport & utilities21%
Services (health, schools, offices…)59%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%
Over $3,333 a month53%
−9%

Jobs based in Brookside, 2013 → 2023: 2,540 → 2,315. 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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