Work & commute · Brooklyn

Work & commute in Brooklyn, MI

Most working residents leave Brooklyn for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Jackson (15%), Columbia (11%) and Blackman (9%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 492 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 460 Brooklyn residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 608 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooklyn.

460live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

608work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooklyn goes to work

Jackson12.4 mi away

15%76

Columbia1.4 mi away

11%53

Blackman16 mi away

9%43

Summit11.3 mi away

5%25

Leoni11.9 mi away

4%19

Napoleon5.4 mi away

3%15

Ann Arbor29 mi away

2%11

Dexter24.5 mi away

2%8

Chelsea18.4 mi away

2%8

Tecumseh17.1 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%226

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.

19%

46%

17%

19%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooklyn is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooklyn are

640 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

640 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Brooklyn residents hold

492 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−23%

Jobs based in Brooklyn, 2011 → 2021: 832 → 640. 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 2021. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.