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
4%
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
8%
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

Cape CanaveralCocoaRockledgeEdgewaterMelbourneDeltonaTitusvillePalm BayPort St. LucieOrlandoUniversityPort St. JohnMimsMerritt IslandTitusvillePalm BayOrlandoMelbourneRockledgeCape CanaveralCocoaMerritt IslandUniversityMims
1
Titusville8.3 mi away
21%665
2
Palm Bay52.1 mi away
6%183
3
Orlando32.7 mi away
5%163
4
Melbourne41.6 mi away
4%134
5
Mims (in town)right here
4%125
6
Rockledge26.4 mi away
2%72
7
Cape Canaveral25.2 mi away
2%67
8
Cocoa22.3 mi away
2%66
9
Merritt Island28.3 mi away
2%55
10
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%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.

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