Work & commute · Wiggins

Work & commute in Wiggins, MS

About one in 4 of Wiggins’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Hattiesburg (9%), Gulfport (9%) and Biloxi (5%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

28%

422 of 1,483 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 1,061 Wiggins residents head out of town to work, 422 work right here, and 2,501 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wiggins.

1,061live here, work elsewhere

422live and work here

2,501work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wiggins goes to work

Wiggins (in town)right here

28%422

Hattiesburg32.9 mi away

9%139

Gulfport30.4 mi away

9%131

Biloxi32 mi away

5%71

New Orleans, LA73 mi away

2%37

Mobile, AL62.6 mi away

2%28

Jackson119 mi away

2%25

Pascagoula48.7 mi away

2%23

D'Iberville32 mi away

1%17

Poplarville23.2 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%574

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

How far

How far Wiggins commutes

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

33%

38%

25%

33%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wiggins is a job hub

1.97jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wiggins are

2,923 jobs are based in Wiggins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wiggins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Wiggins

2,923 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Wiggins residents hold

1,483 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month47%

−5%

Jobs based in Wiggins, 2013 → 2023: 3,069 → 2,923. 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.