Work & commute · Ocean Springs

Work & commute in Ocean Springs, MS

About one in 4 of Ocean Springs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Biloxi (16%), Pascagoula (13%) and Gulfport (11%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23%

1,550 of 6,698 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,148 Ocean Springs residents head out of town to work, 1,550 work right here, and 7,327 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ocean Springs.

5,148live here, work elsewhere

1,550live and work here

7,327work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ocean Springs goes to work

Ocean Springs (in town)right here

23%1,550

Biloxi8.9 mi away

16%1,074

Pascagoula14.2 mi away

13%867

Gulfport16.7 mi away

11%718

D'Iberville7 mi away

3%217

Gautier7.7 mi away

3%192

Mobile, AL44.5 mi away

3%191

Jackson156.6 mi away

1%98

Hattiesburg69.9 mi away

1%95

Vancleave12 mi away

1%78

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%1,618

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

How far

How far Ocean Springs commutes

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

48%

31%

16%

48%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ocean Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.33jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Ocean Springs are

8,877 jobs are based in Ocean Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ocean Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ocean Springs

8,877 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Ocean Springs residents hold

6,698 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+12%

Jobs based in Ocean Springs, 2013 → 2023: 7,938 → 8,877. 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.