Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Ecru has 6.9 jobs per working resident, and 2,825 people come in to work
There are 2,864 jobs in Ecru, and 413 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Ecru C; getting around on foot earns it D. About one in ten work in Ecru itself; outside it, Tupelo draws the most (20%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Ecru, in brief
Ecru fills up on a workday
Ecru has 2,864 jobs, 6.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,600 people are in town, 3 times the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Ecru makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Ecru are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ecru residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
The biggest group of Ecru’s workers comes from Tupelo
194 of the people who work in Ecru live in Tupelo, 18 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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 413 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Ecru
On income, poverty and job access, Ecru is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Ecru’s grade up (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (14.8%) is left out: Ecru’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ecru could be anywhere from D to B.
Ecru on a workday afternoon
On a workday 374 residents head out to work and 39 work right here.
About 3,600 people are in Ecru on a workday afternoon, 220% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Goods jobs make up 80% of work in Ecru
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ecru, 2013 → 2023: 2,843 → 2,864. 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 Ecru’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Ecru, and from where
Where Ecru clocks in
20% of workers
18% of workers
8% 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 daily trip from Ecru: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ecru workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 485 commuters (the 7% 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.
The commute from Ecru, by distance
About 16% 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.
Driving is how Ecru gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ecru is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ecru near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 523 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). 9.3% of Ecru households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ecru’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ecru ranks: 2,250th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,226 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,414 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,509 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,248 | Prineville Lake Acres OR | 1,497 | $80K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,249 | Stockton KS | 1,400 | $63K | 6.9% | 1.2% | 33% | C |
| 2,250 | Ecru MS | 1,113 | $65K | 16.1% | 14.8% | 9% | C |
| 2,251 | Sutherland NE | 1,225 | $73K | 9.8% | 5.6% | 11% | C |
| 2,252 | Delmar WI | 1,027 | $74K | 13.0% | 1.7% | 0% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Ecru, 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 Ecru: questions
What is the median household income in Ecru?
$65,000 (±$35,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ecru?
16.1%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ecru?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ecru work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (20%, 18 mi), Pontotoc (18%, 7 mi), New Albany (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ecru walkable?
Ecru is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ecru 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 Ecru, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ecru
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.