Most of Collings Lakes commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Collings Lakes; the top destination outside it is Vineland (17%, 11 miles). 19 jobs are based in Collings Lakes, against 685 working residents. 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across New Jersey.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Collings Lakes: the figures worth knowing
Collings Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 19 jobs based in Collings Lakes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Collings Lakes has about 1,300 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Collings Lakes and Vineland trade workers both ways
Vineland is the top workplace for Collings Lakes residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Collings Lakes come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Collings Lakes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 31 across New Jersey. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 685 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Collings Lakes
On a workday 683 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Collings Lakes on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Collings Lakes’ residents
Where Collings Lakes clocks in
17% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
From Collings Lakes, about 42 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collings Lakes workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,168 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across New Jersey: 75% drive alone, 10% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What Collings Lakes’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collings Lakes, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 19. 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 Collings Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Collings Lakes, by distance
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.
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 Collings Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Collings Lakes?
$113,061 (±$25,779) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collings Lakes?
3.7%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collings Lakes?
42 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collings Lakes work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vineland (17%, 11 mi), Buena Vista Township (7%, 6 mi), Hamilton Township (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Collings Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Collings Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Collings Lakes
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.