Main Street Historic District-Winters · Photo: Brian Wickstrom · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Winters earn more than those in 89% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 8.8% of residents; California has 12.0%. For jobs and income Winters is better than 76% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−). About one in seven work in Winters; the top destination outside it is Vacaville (10%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Winters in brief
Winters’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income is its strongest input ($122,951, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winters could be anywhere from B− to A.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Winters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winters workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,175 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
A workday in Winters: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,844 residents head out to work, 567 work right here, and 914 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,300 people are in Winters on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.43 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.
Where Winters goes to work
Where Winters clocks in
9% 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.
Winters makes things: 33% of its jobs are in goods
1,481 jobs are based in Winters.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winters, 2013 → 2023: 1,377 → 1,481. 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 Winters’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Winters works
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.
Getting around Winters: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,761 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 39% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.3% of Winters households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winters’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 5,700 to 11,100, Winters ranks 932nd of 3,034 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
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| 24 | Piedmont CA | 10,642 | $250K | 4.3% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Sierra Madre CA | 10,620 | $144K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 930 | New Scotland NY | 9,299 | $123K | 6.4% | 4.7% | 7% | A− |
| 931 | Frankfort Square IL | 9,560 | $127K | 6.4% | 7.4% | 2% | A− |
| 932 | Winters CA | 8,214 | $123K | 8.8% | 3.1% | 17% | A− |
| 933 | DeWitt IA | 5,704 | $93K | 2.8% | 4.1% | 24% | A− |
| 934 | Chatham Township IL | 8,487 | $89K | 4.6% | 3.6% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,034 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Winters, the top three, the last and three more from California.
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 Winters: questions
What is the median household income in Winters?
$122,951 (±$34,578) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winters?
8.8%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winters?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winters work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vacaville (10%, 12 mi), Sacramento (9%, 28 mi), Fairfield (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winters walkable?
Winters is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 11.6 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winters without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 39% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winters, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winters
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.