Work & commute · Brooks

Work & commute in Brooks, ME

Most working residents leave Brooks for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Belfast (28%), Bangor (9%) and Portland (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 370 working residents

Typical commute

21 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 364 Brooks residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 145 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooks.

364live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

145work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooks goes to work

Belfast9 mi away

28%103

Bangor26 mi away

9%35

Portland81.8 mi away

5%17

Augusta33.3 mi away

4%14

Rockland28.6 mi away

2%8

Unity12.1 mi away

2%8

Rockport25.5 mi away

2%7

Waldo5.1 mi away

2%7

Searsport10.6 mi away

2%7

Brooks (in town)right here

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%158

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.

21%

41%

24%

14%

21%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooks is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooks are

151 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

151 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Brooks residents hold

370 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+185%

Jobs based in Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 53 → 151. 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.