Yecora’s main cultivations are corn, bean, potatoes, and perennial crops. However, the lumber activity is a relevant economic activity in this municipality, exploiting pine trees and holm oak.

Cattle breeding is also developed in a surface of 305,000 hectares in natural land.

The industrial activity occupies second place in the municipality’s economy, generating 343 jobs that represent 28% of the occupied population. There is a wood drawer, a plank and a broomstick factory, as well as a mushroom canning plant, and a jelly producer factory in Mesa del Campanero. There is great potential in the industrial sector, due to the fact that investors may install wood product manufacturer plants in the region.

Yecora is supplied with water by the Mulatos River that goes through the entire town from south to north, and comes from Chihuahua. It also has two permanent streams: Del Toro and La Tinaja.