Household incomes in Edmore are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
2% of workers work from home, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole. The poverty rate is 32.2%, where Michigan as a whole has 13.2%. Jobs and income earn Edmore D−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Edmore, in a few figures
Edmore makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Edmore are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Edmore residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Few Edmore workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. 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 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published; with 424 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Edmore: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Edmore is better than 4% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Edmore’s grade.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Edmore’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is two years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Edmore could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Making and building: 47% of jobs based in Edmore
445 jobs are based in Edmore.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edmore, 2011 → 2021: 340 → 445. 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 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Edmore’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Edmore
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edmore workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% 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.
A workday in Edmore: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 405 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 (1.05 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Home Township
Where Edmore clocks in
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.
The commute from Edmore, by distance
About 28% 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 2021.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Edmore start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edmore is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 584 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). 12.2% of Edmore households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edmore’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edmore next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 151 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 175 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,495 | Chester GA | 1,476 | $56K | 38.3% | 3.4% | 0% | D− |
| 4,496 | Beaverton MI | 1,217 | $30K | 18.2% | 1.5% | 8% | D− |
| 4,497 | Edmore MI | 1,274 | $54K | 32.2% | 2.7% | 9% | D− |
| 4,498 | Laverne OK | 1,189 | $61K | 27.3% | 4.8% | 20% | D− |
| 4,499 | Griggsville Township IL | 1,240 | $44K | 20.4% | 3.8% | 9% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Edmore, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2021, 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 Edmore: questions
What is the median household income in Edmore?
$54,063 (±$30,085) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edmore?
32.2%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edmore?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edmore work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Home Township (12%, 2 mi), Greenville (7%, 19 mi), Stanton (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Edmore walkable?
Edmore is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edmore without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edmore, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edmore
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, 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.