Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Fingers-of-Pyrex~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Households in Amory have lower incomes than those in 84% of U.S. towns
16.4% of residents live below the poverty line, against 18.9% across Mississippi. For jobs and income Amory is better than 13% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B). About one in four work in Amory; the top destination outside it is Tupelo (16%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Amory apart on work
Commutes from Amory are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. Time on the road ↓
Amory’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Amory is Tupelo, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (413) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
The figures behind Amory’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Amory’s grade up (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($52,901, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Amory could be anywhere from D to B−.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Amory
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Amory workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,831 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Amory
About 19% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Amory
On a workday 1,904 residents head out to work, 612 work right here, and 3,035 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,500 people are in Amory on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.45 per resident).
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 places Amory commutes to
Where Amory clocks in
16% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 31% of jobs based in Amory
3,647 jobs are based in Amory.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Amory, 2013 → 2023: 3,975 → 3,647. 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 Amory’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Amory commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,027 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). 7.7% of Amory households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Amory’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Amory compares with U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 932 | Gulf Park Estates MS | 6,264 | $66K | 5.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 941 | Saltillo MS | 5,060 | $81K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,543 | Vancleave MS | 5,078 | $70K | 6.2% | 3.0% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,929 | Cobleskill NY | 6,484 | $55K | 15.1% | 6.2% | 26% | D |
| 2,930 | Hartsville SC | 7,374 | $49K | 19.6% | 7.2% | 27% | D |
| 2,931 | Amory MS | 6,386 | $53K | 16.4% | 7.0% | 24% | D |
| 2,932 | New Boston TX | 4,560 | $64K | 18.5% | 10.6% | 16% | D |
| 2,933 | Inverness FL | 7,796 | $44K | 15.0% | 5.9% | 19% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,255 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Amory, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Amory: questions
What is the median household income in Amory?
$52,901 (±$8,394) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Amory?
16.4%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Amory?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Amory work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (16%, 24 mi), Aberdeen (6%, 11 mi), Fulton (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Amory walkable?
Amory is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Amory without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Amory, from the people who make the trip.
More of Amory
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.