Work & commute · Brown

Work & commute in Brown, OH

Most working residents leave Brown for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Defiance (9%), Paulding (7%) and Van Wert (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

43 of 882 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 839 Brown residents head out of town to work, 43 work right here, and 521 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brown.

839live here, work elsewhere

43live and work here

521work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brown goes to work

Defiance11.3 mi away

9%81

Paulding10.2 mi away

7%61

Van Wert20.3 mi away

6%56

Jackson7.1 mi away

4%37

Brown (in town)right here

4%33

Fort Wayne, IN39.2 mi away

3%30

Paulding12.4 mi away

3%28

Napoleon23.8 mi away

2%16

Hoaglin14.2 mi away

2%16

Bryan25.7 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%509

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

How far

How far Brown commutes

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

20%

41%

22%

18%

20%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brown 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 Brown are

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

Jobs based in Brown

564 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)72%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)23%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Brown residents hold

882 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−1%

Jobs based in Brown, 2013 → 2023: 569 → 564. 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.