Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Collinwood
For 4% of workers, the job is at home, against 13% across Tennessee. About one in ten work in Collinwood itself; outside it, Waynesboro draws the most (24%, 10 miles). Working residents average 31 minutes each way; Tennessee averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Collinwood
Collinwood makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Collinwood are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Collinwood residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Collinwood workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Collinwood workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 13% across Tennessee. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 387 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
51% of the jobs in Collinwood make or build things
372 jobs are based in Collinwood.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collinwood, 2014 → 2024: 308 → 372. 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 Collinwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Collinwood takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collinwood workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 455 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Tennessee: 87% 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.
Who works in Collinwood, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 344 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 329 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Collinwood work
Where Collinwood clocks in
24% of workers
9% 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.
Miles to work from Collinwood
About 27% 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.
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 Collinwood: questions
What is the median household income in Collinwood?
$54,286 (±$14,654) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collinwood?
15.1%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collinwood?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collinwood work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waynesboro (24%, 10 mi), Florence (9%, 24 mi), Nashville (9%, 87 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Collinwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Collinwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Collinwood
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.