Work & commute · Brookings

Work & commute in Brookings, OR

About one in 3 of Brookings’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Harbor (11%), Crescent City (6%) and Gold Beach (4%). Half commute less than 3 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

36%

768 of 2,159 working residents

Typical commute

3 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,391 Brookings residents head out of town to work, 768 work right here, and 1,841 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brookings.

1,391live here, work elsewhere

768live and work here

1,841work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brookings goes to work

Brookings (in town)right here

36%768

Harbor3.7 mi away

11%235

Crescent City, CA21.9 mi away

6%138

Gold Beach23.6 mi away

4%78

Medford76.6 mi away

3%67

Grants Pass55.6 mi away

3%54

Portland253.2 mi away

2%51

Coos Bay90.5 mi away

2%36

Salem207.2 mi away

2%35

Eugene149.6 mi away

1%32

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%665

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

How far

How far Brookings commutes

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

56%

10%

31%

56%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brookings is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Brookings are

2,609 jobs are based in Brookings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brookings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Brookings

2,609 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Brookings residents hold

2,159 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+10%

Jobs based in Brookings, 2013 → 2023: 2,373 → 2,609. 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.