Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Fulton has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 3,299 people come in to work
There are 3,700 jobs in Fulton, and 1,457 of its residents work somewhere. Fulton grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Fulton and work: the main findings
Fulton is where the jobs are
Fulton has 3,700 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 6,900 people are in town, 48% more than the 4,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Fulton makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Fulton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fulton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
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 Fulton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fulton is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #70 of 99 in Mississippi. Job access by car holds Fulton’s grade up (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.9%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fulton could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Fulton fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,056 residents head out to work and 401 work right here.
About 6,900 people are in Fulton on a workday afternoon, 48% 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.
A place that makes things: 35% of Fulton’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fulton, 2013 → 2023: 3,938 → 3,700. 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 Fulton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Fulton live
Where Fulton clocks in
21% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
About 22 minutes each way for Fulton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fulton workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,634 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Fulton’s workers travel
About 21% 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 commute in Fulton is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fulton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns, #37 of 101 in Mississippi. Both inputs place Fulton 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 1,715 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). 11.7% of Fulton households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fulton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fulton and other U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 952 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,013 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,022 | Gulf Park Estates MS | 6,264 | $66K | 5.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,661 | New Lexington OH | 4,465 | $44K | 27.4% | 5.4% | 21% | D |
| 3,662 | Ishpeming MI | 6,205 | $53K | 18.7% | 6.4% | 25% | D |
| 3,663 | Fulton MS | 4,640 | $53K | 18.7% | 7.9% | 28% | D |
| 3,664 | Burgaw NC | 3,903 | $68K | 19.7% | 8.5% | 12% | D |
| 3,665 | Lewisburg WV | 3,721 | $50K | 28.0% | 5.3% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,009 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Fulton, 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 Fulton: questions
What is the median household income in Fulton?
$52,727 (±$16,367) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fulton?
18.7%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fulton?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fulton work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (21%, 19 mi), Red Bay (2%, 19 mi), Oxford (2%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fulton walkable?
Fulton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fulton 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 Fulton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fulton
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.