Work & commute · Mims

Work & commute in Mims, FL

Most working residents leave Mims for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Titusville (21%), Palm Bay (6%) and Orlando (5%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

125 of 3,211 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 3,086 Mims residents head out of town to work, 125 work right here, and 931 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mims.

3,086live here, work elsewhere

125live and work here

931work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mims goes to work

Titusville8.3 mi away

21%665

Palm Bay52.1 mi away

6%183

Orlando32.7 mi away

5%163

Melbourne41.6 mi away

4%134

Mims (in town)right here

4%125

Rockledge26.4 mi away

2%72

Cape Canaveral25.2 mi away

2%67

Cocoa22.3 mi away

2%66

Merritt Island28.3 mi away

2%55

University22.6 mi away

1%46

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%1,635

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

How far

How far Mims commutes

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

24%

28%

25%

24%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mims is a commuter town

0.33jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mims are

1,056 jobs are based in Mims. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mims’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mims

1,056 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)64%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)20%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Mims residents hold

3,211 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+119%

Jobs based in Mims, 2013 → 2023: 482 → 1,056. 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.