Home of Tiptree preserves, Wilkin & Sons has made jam in the village since 1885, founded by a local farming family, and still grows fruit on surrounding farmland. It is the anchor employer and the reason the village name is known internationally.
One of the largest villages in Essex, with a Church Road 'high street' of everyday independents, butchers, bakers, salons, estate agents, takeaways, serving a big resident population rather than tourists.
Tiptree Heath is the largest surviving fragment of heathland in Essex and a Site of Special Scientific Interest; the surrounding land is fruit-growing and arable, so agricultural contracting and food businesses are a real part of the local economy.
Tiptree had a recorded population of about 9,628 at the 2021 census.