Windsor has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
5% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Employers in Windsor report 212 jobs; 495 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Windsor C−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Windsor and work: the main findings
Inside Windsor’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Windsor is better than 21% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Windsor’s grade.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Windsor’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Windsor could be anywhere from D to B−.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Windsor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windsor workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily commute in and out of Windsor
On a workday 463 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 180 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Windsor on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer 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.
11% of working residents work in Mattoon
Where Windsor clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
10% 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.
What Windsor’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 180 → 212. 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 Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Windsor to work
About 27% 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.
Most of Windsor commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Windsor is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 349 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). 5.9% of Windsor households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Windsor is 2,088th of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,086 | Belfast Township PA | 1,344 | $64K | 9.1% | 3.7% | 1% | C− |
| 2,087 | Hamilton Township MI | 1,365 | $65K | 14.4% | 3.6% | 2% | C− |
| 2,088 | Windsor IL | 1,035 | $63K | 15.3% | 2.8% | 6% | C− |
| 2,089 | Converse IN | 1,128 | $66K | 18.9% | 4.6% | 5% | C− |
| 2,090 | Dunlap IA | 1,030 | $49K | 7.2% | 5.7% | 14% | 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 Windsor, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Windsor
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Windsor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | – | C− | C+ | 22 min | $63,359 |
| Windsor Township | under 3% | C | C+ | 24 min | $69,722 |
| Richland Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Richland Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Windsor’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 Windsor: questions
What is the median household income in Windsor?
$63,359 (±$18,171) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windsor?
15.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windsor?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windsor work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mattoon (11%, 13 mi), Effingham (10%, 22 mi), Shelbyville (10%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windsor walkable?
Windsor is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Windsor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Windsor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Windsor
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.