Windsor Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Home is the office for 3% of workers, where Illinois as a whole has 16%. Employers in Windsor Township report 222 jobs for 651 working residents. The two grades for Windsor Township are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Windsor Township: the figures worth knowing
The figures behind Windsor Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Windsor Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Windsor Township’s grade.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Windsor Township’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 Township could be anywhere from D to B.
Windsor Township’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windsor Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 483 commuters (the 3% 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.
How many people are in Windsor Township by day
On a workday 610 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 181 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Windsor Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
10% of working residents work in Mattoon
Where Windsor Township clocks in
10% 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.
Jobs in Windsor Township: what the 222 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windsor Township, 2013 → 2023: 185 → 222. 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 Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Windsor Township
About 28% 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.
In Windsor Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Windsor Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 499 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). 5.5% of Windsor Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windsor Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Windsor Township ranks 2,903rd of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,901 | Dawson MN | 1,444 | $69K | 7.6% | 2.5% | 29% | C |
| 2,902 | China TX | 1,343 | $55K | 11.8% | 9.4% | 1% | C |
| 2,903 | Windsor Township IL | 1,343 | $70K | 11.3% | 2.7% | 6% | C |
| 2,904 | Kenduskeag ME | 1,418 | $80K | 15.9% | 2.1% | <1% | C |
| 2,905 | Milan NH | 1,354 | $70K | 6.7% | 1.2% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Windsor Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Windsor (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Windsor Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Township | – | C | C+ | 24 min | $69,722 |
| Okaw Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Richland Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Whitley Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Windsor | 6% | C− | C+ | 22 min | $63,359 |
| Sullivan Township | under 3% | B | A | 18 min | $68,984 |
| Ash Grove Township | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Okaw Township, Richland Township, Whitley Township and Ash Grove Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Windsor Township’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 Township: questions
What is the median household income in Windsor Township?
$69,722 (±$15,307) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windsor Township?
11.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windsor Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windsor Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mattoon (10%, 16 mi), Effingham (10%, 25 mi), Shelbyville (10%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windsor Township walkable?
Windsor Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Windsor Township 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 Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Windsor Township
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.