Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY 4.0At 1.3%, unemployment in Saltillo is lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
Commuters spend 21 minutes getting to work on average, where Mississippi has 26 and the U.S. 26. The two grades for Saltillo are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Saltillo is ahead of 57% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Saltillo: the gist
Nearly half of Saltillo works in Tupelo
989 working residents, 47%, have their main job in Tupelo, 7.9 miles away across the town line. That’s 16 times as many as work in Saltillo itself. The commute map ↓
Saltillo makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Saltillo are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Saltillo residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Saltillo are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. Time on the road ↓
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 Saltillo’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Saltillo is better than 75% of U.S. towns, #7 of 99 in Mississippi. Unemployment holds Saltillo’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Saltillo could be anywhere from C+ to A.
47% of working residents work in Tupelo
Where Saltillo clocks in
47% 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.
44% of the jobs in Saltillo make or build things
1,544 jobs are based in Saltillo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saltillo, 2013 → 2023: 1,564 → 1,544. 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 Saltillo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Saltillo: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saltillo workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,412 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.
The daily flow of workers through Saltillo
On a workday 2,043 residents head out to work, 73 work right here, and 1,471 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Saltillo on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.73 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Saltillo goes to work
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.
Most trips from Saltillo start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Saltillo is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #87 of 101 in Mississippi. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.8% across Mississippi.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,568 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). 1.3% of Saltillo households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Saltillo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Saltillo places 1,007th of 3,758 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 933 | Gluckstadt MS | 3,500 | $124K | 5.3% | 5.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 988 | New Hope MS | 3,952 | $80K | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 997 | Gulf Park Estates MS | 6,264 | $66K | 5.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,005 | Wauna WA | 4,805 | $103K | 6.0% | 3.7% | 2% | A− |
| 1,006 | Becker MN | 5,425 | $86K | 9.5% | 1.1% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,007 | Saltillo MS | 5,060 | $81K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,008 | Grattan Township MI | 3,896 | $111K | 1.9% | 6.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,009 | Paradise Township PA | 4,096 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.8% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | 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 Saltillo, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
Saltillo and its neighbors: 47% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Tupelo. Darker towns draw more of Saltillo’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Saltillo: questions
What is the median household income in Saltillo?
$80,640 (±$20,748) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saltillo?
6.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saltillo?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saltillo work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (47%, 8 mi), Oxford (2%, 48 mi), Fulton (2%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Saltillo walkable?
Saltillo is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Saltillo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Saltillo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saltillo
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.