Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Collinsville’s household incomes are lower than in 62% of U.S. towns
Collinsville grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 12.0% of residents live below the poverty line, against 11.8% across Illinois. About one in ten work in Collinsville itself; outside it, St. Louis draws the most (12%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Collinsville
Collinsville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Collinsville is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #480 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Collinsville’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($67,612, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Collinsville could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where Collinsville’s working residents head each day
Where Collinsville clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
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.
Who leaves Collinsville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 10,577 residents head out to work, 1,232 work right here, and 7,766 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21,000 people are in Collinsville on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Inside Collinsville’s 8,998 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collinsville, 2013 → 2023: 9,927 → 8,998. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Collinsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Collinsville takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collinsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,542 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% 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
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Collinsville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Collinsville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns, #494 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 12,077 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 2% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 71% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.1% of Collinsville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Collinsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Collinsville is 1,000th among 1,577 U.S. towns of 17,000 to 32,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Deerfield IL | 19,642 | $182K | 2.8% | 2.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Geneva IL | 21,138 | $144K | 3.8% | 1.8% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 998 | Ives Estates FL | 28,506 | $72K | 11.9% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 999 | Mead Valley CA | 19,286 | $87K | 9.6% | 7.8% | 3% | B− |
| 1,000 | Collinsville IL | 23,717 | $68K | 12.0% | 4.7% | 10% | B− |
| 1,001 | Wayne Township IN | 29,702 | $72K | 12.7% | 2.8% | 40% | B− |
| 1,002 | Miamisburg OH | 20,414 | $83K | 11.8% | 6.1% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,577 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Illinois.
Collinsville and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Maryville (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Collinsville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collinsville | – | B− | B | 24 min | $67,612 |
| Pontoon Beach | under 2% | C | B− | 23 min | $62,861 |
| Caseyville | under 2% | C+ | B | 21 min | $60,669 |
| Fairmont City | under 2% | B− | B− | 17 min | $48,147 |
| Maryville | 2% | A− | C | 29 min | $100,670 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Collinsville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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?
$67,612 (±$4,578) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collinsville?
12.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collinsville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collinsville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (12%, 13 mi), Edwardsville (7%, 8 mi), Belleville (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Collinsville walkable?
Collinsville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Collinsville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 2% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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), 2023, 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.