Photo: DwayneP · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes put Collinsville near the very bottom of U.S. towns
26.0% of residents are in poverty; Alabama has 15.6%. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. The two grades for Collinsville are D− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Collinsville
Collinsville is where the jobs are
Collinsville has 1,174 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Collinsville makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Collinsville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Collinsville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. The jobs ↓
The biggest group of Collinsville’s workers comes from Fort Payne
100 of the people who work in Collinsville live in Fort Payne, 17 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 553 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Collinsville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Collinsville is better than 5% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Collinsville’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($31,652, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Collinsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Collinsville could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many people are in Collinsville by day
On a workday 467 residents head out to work, 86 work right here, and 1,088 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Collinsville on a workday afternoon, 29% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 57% of the jobs in Collinsville
1,174 jobs are based in Collinsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collinsville, 2014 → 2024: 1,404 → 1,174. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Collinsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Collinsville
Where Collinsville clocks in
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alabama
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collinsville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 625 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Collinsville commutes
About 28% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Collinsville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Collinsville is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Collinsville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 650 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 12.1% of Collinsville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Collinsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Collinsville compares with U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Indian Springs Village AL | 2,553 | $137K | 3.4% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 401 | Westover AL | 2,121 | $97K | 4.1% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 454 | Trinity AL | 2,638 | $101K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,998 | South Branch Township MI | 1,779 | $52K | 16.7% | 8.0% | 4% | D |
| 4,999 | Searles Valley CA | 1,713 | $63K | 24.3% | 11.1% | 20% | D |
| 5,000 | Collinsville AL | 2,121 | $32K | 26.0% | 2.2% | 16% | D− |
| 5,001 | Guin AL | 2,136 | $51K | 18.3% | 11.2% | 14% | D− |
| 5,002 | Independence LA | 1,665 | $40K | 31.0% | 14.2% | 4% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Collinsville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Collinsville: questions
What is the median household income in Collinsville?
$31,652 (±$17,678) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collinsville?
26.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collinsville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collinsville work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Payne (23%, 17 mi), Huntsville (5%, 55 mi), Centre (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Collinsville walkable?
Collinsville is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Collinsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Collinsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Collinsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.