Collins is a very small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,286 people and two associated neighborhoods, Collins is the 110th largest community in Mississippi.When you are in Collins, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.73% of Collins’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Collins is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Collins who work in teaching (21.59%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.25%), and personal care services (7.14%). Collins is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Collins, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Collins has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Collins has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Collins than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Collins may be for you. For a small city, Collins has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Collins exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.In Collins, just 12.01% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Collins in 2022 was $15,850, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $63,400 for a family of four. Collins also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.Collins is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Collins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Collins residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Collins include Irish, Scots-Irish, English, German, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Collins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
