Photo: Darkshark0159 at English Wikipedia · Public domainWinter Park has 4.1 jobs for every working resident: 1,893 people commute in to work
Winter Park has 2,061 jobs for 505 working residents. For jobs and income Winter Park is better than 49% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (A). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 13.2 in Denver.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Winter Park, in brief
Winter Park fills up on a workday
Winter Park has 2,061 jobs, 4.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,800 people are in town, more than double the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Many jobs in Winter Park pay little
43% of the jobs based in Winter Park pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 38% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Winter Park is services
89% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. 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; with 505 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Winter Park earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Winter Park’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Winter Park’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Winter Park could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Winter Park
On a workday 337 residents head out to work and 168 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Winter Park on a workday afternoon, 128% 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.
Most jobs in Winter Park are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winter Park, 2013 → 2023: 1,602 → 2,061. 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 Winter Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Winter Park, and from where
Where Winter Park clocks in
12% of workers
11% of workers
3% 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.
Getting to work from Winter Park takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winter Park workers work from home, vs 21% across Colorado. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Colorado: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute from Winter Park, by distance
About 22% 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.
Winter Park is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 26.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 6.4% across Colorado, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 608 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 28% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 28% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 71% 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). 0.0% of Winter Park households have no vehicle (Colorado 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Winter Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Winter Park places 1,491st of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 245 | Aetna Estates CO | 1,010 | $75K | 1.1% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 440 | Perry Park CO | 1,570 | $158K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 612 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,489 | Lincoln Township KS | 1,582 | $66K | 4.5% | 1.3% | 15% | B− |
| 1,490 | Milford Township OH | 1,102 | $106K | 14.5% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,491 | Winter Park CO | 1,217 | $69K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 33% | B− |
| 1,492 | Inman KS | 1,309 | $59K | 4.2% | 3.6% | 5% | B− |
| 1,493 | Hiawatha Township MI | 1,326 | $79K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Winter Park, the top three, the last and three more from Colorado.
Winter Park and its neighbors: 12% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winter Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Park | – | B− | A | 20 min | $68,828 |
| Fraser | 12% | C+ | A | 26 min | $89,980 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Fraser. Darker towns draw more of Winter Park’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 Winter Park: questions
What is the median household income in Winter Park?
$68,828 (±$37,446) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,470 across Colorado and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winter Park?
2.4%, against 9.4% across Colorado and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winter Park?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Colorado and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winter Park work?
33% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fraser (12%, 3 mi), Denver (11%, 48 mi), Colorado Springs (3%, 89 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winter Park walkable?
Winter Park is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 26% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winter Park without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 28% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winter Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winter Park
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.