Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Collinsville has lower unemployment (0.7%) than 96% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Collinsville is behind 73% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Collinsville B; getting around on foot earns it C. Only 2% work in Collinsville itself; outside it, Denton draws the most (8%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Collinsville at work: what stands out
Collinsville is a place people come home to
There are 168 jobs based in Collinsville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Collinsville has about 1,400 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Collinsville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Collinsville is Denton, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (74) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Collinsville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 871 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Collinsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Collinsville is better than 57% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Collinsville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($60,417, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Collinsville could be anywhere from B− to B+.
How a workday changes Collinsville
On a workday 855 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 152 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Collinsville on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.19 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The distance from Collinsville to work
About 20% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting to work from Collinsville takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Collinsville workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 903 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
Where Collinsville’s working residents head each day
Where Collinsville clocks in
8% 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.
What the 168 jobs in Collinsville are
168 jobs are based in Collinsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Collinsville, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 168. 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 around Collinsville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Collinsville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,025 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). 1.7% of Collinsville households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Collinsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Collinsville is 1,737th among 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Southside Place TX | 1,916 | $163K | 5.0% | 5.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 23 | Shoreacres TX | 1,535 | $131K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,735 | Leslie MI | 1,937 | $74K | 12.9% | 3.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,736 | West Homestead PA | 1,778 | $77K | 6.9% | 8.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,737 | Collinsville TX | 2,076 | $60K | 11.5% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,738 | Madison NY | 2,726 | $77K | 12.5% | 0.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,739 | Venice Township OH | 1,634 | $86K | 6.7% | 1.1% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Texas.
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?
$60,417 (±$5,328) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Collinsville?
11.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Collinsville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Collinsville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denton (8%, 27 mi), Dallas (5%, 54 mi), Sherman (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Collinsville walkable?
Collinsville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Collinsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% 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), 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.