Work & commute · Brooks

Work & commute in Brooks, OR

Most working residents leave Brooks for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Salem (33%), Portland (9%) and Woodburn (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 210 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 208 Brooks residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 736 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Brooks.

208live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

736work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Brooks goes to work

Salem9.3 mi away

33%70

Portland36.8 mi away

9%18

Woodburn8.1 mi away

4%9

Keizer4.7 mi away

3%7

Wilsonville20.2 mi away

3%7

Tualatin24.2 mi away

2%5

Tigard27.1 mi away

2%5

Beaverton30.3 mi away

2%4

Four Corners8.4 mi away

2%4

Hayesville5 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%77

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.

50%

26%

20%

50%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Brooks is a job hub

3.51jobs per working resident

A job hub

3.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Brooks are

738 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

738 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)81%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Brooks residents hold

210 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+186%

Jobs based in Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 258 → 738. 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.