Work & commute · Brooklin

Work & commute in Brooklin, ME

Most working residents leave Brooklin for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Blue Hill (14%), Brooksville (10%) and Ellsworth (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

40 of 281 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 241 Brooklin residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 205 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooklin.

241live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

205work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooklin goes to work

Blue Hill10.3 mi away

14%40

Brooklin (in town)right here

14%40

Brooksville12.5 mi away

10%27

Ellsworth22.9 mi away

6%16

Sedgwick7.9 mi away

5%15

Portland92.3 mi away

5%14

Bangor41.6 mi away

4%10

Deer Isle12.5 mi away

3%8

Scarborough100.9 mi away

2%7

Castine17.7 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%97

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

How far

How far Brooklin commutes

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

38%

25%

12%

26%

38%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooklin is balanced between jobs and homes

0.87jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooklin are

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

Jobs based in Brooklin

245 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)53%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Brooklin residents hold

281 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+19%

Jobs based in Brooklin, 2013 → 2023: 206 → 245. 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.