Work & commute · Collins

Work & commute in Collins, MS

About one in 4 of Collins’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Hattiesburg (12%), Laurel (9%) and Jackson (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

24%

196 of 833 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 637 Collins residents head out of town to work, 196 work right here, and 3,451 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Collins.

637live here, work elsewhere

196live and work here

3,451work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Collins goes to work

Collins (in town)right here

24%196

Hattiesburg27.8 mi away

12%102

Laurel24.8 mi away

9%71

Jackson59.6 mi away

4%32

McComb60.1 mi away

3%25

Magee18.3 mi away

3%23

Mount Olive9 mi away

1%12

Seminary7.4 mi away

1%10

Ridgeland63.9 mi away

1%10

Richland53.1 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%344

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

How far

How far Collins commutes

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

31%

22%

17%

31%

31%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Collins is a job hub

4.38jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Collins are

3,647 jobs are based in Collins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Collins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Collins

3,647 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)42%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Collins residents hold

833 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month35%

+3%

Jobs based in Collins, 2013 → 2023: 3,526 → 3,647. 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.