Photo: PopePompus · CC BY-SA 4.0Winfield’s household incomes are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns
9.8% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 11.1% for Iowa as a whole. Winfield grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 4% of workers work from home (Iowa 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Winfield: the gist
Jobs & income in Winfield: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Winfield is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Winfield’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($49,063, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Winfield’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, Winfield could be anywhere from D to C+.
The trip to work from Winfield: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winfield workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 386 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Iowa: 86% 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.
Winfield by day and by night
On a workday 424 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 247 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Winfield on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.61 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.
17% of working residents work in Mount Pleasant
Where Winfield clocks in
17% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Winfield: what the 277 are
277 jobs are based in Winfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winfield, 2013 → 2023: 302 → 277. 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 Winfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Winfield
About 20% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Winfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winfield is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Winfield near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 400 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). 2.2% of Winfield households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Winfield places 2,126th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | University Heights IA | 1,177 | $111K | 14.5% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 119 | Gilbert IA | 1,389 | $123K | 3.4% | 4.1% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,124 | Preston Township IL | 1,166 | $54K | 9.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,125 | Canton ME | 1,123 | $52K | 8.4% | 5.7% | 1% | C− |
| 2,126 | Winfield IA | 1,004 | $49K | 9.8% | 3.6% | 7% | C− |
| 2,127 | La Crosse-Brookdale Township KS | 1,304 | $56K | 8.2% | 0.4% | 34% | C− |
| 2,128 | Rush Township MI | 1,256 | $65K | 17.4% | 4.7% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Winfield, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
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 Winfield: questions
What is the median household income in Winfield?
$49,063 (±$6,289) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winfield?
9.8%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winfield?
26 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winfield work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Pleasant (17%, 13 mi), Wayland (10%, 12 mi), Washington (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winfield walkable?
Winfield is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winfield
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.