Photo: Jayhawk1776 · CC BY-SA 4.0Winfield has higher unemployment (7.3%) than 84% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Winfield is behind 79% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Winfield C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. About two in five work in Winfield itself; outside it, Arkansas City draws the most (14%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Income, poverty and work: Winfield’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winfield is better than 15% of U.S. towns, #142 of 151 in Kansas. Job access by car holds Winfield’s grade up (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winfield could be anywhere from D to C.
The workday shuffle in and out of Winfield
On a workday 2,755 residents head out to work, 1,775 work right here, and 3,629 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).
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 Winfield’s working residents head each day
Where Winfield clocks in
14% of workers
9% 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 work there is in Winfield: 5,404 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winfield, 2013 → 2023: 6,178 → 5,404. 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.
Getting to work from Winfield takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winfield workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,559 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Kansas: 85% 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.
The commute from Winfield, by distance
About 23% 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 Winfield commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winfield is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns, #81 of 151 in Kansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across Kansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,833 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). 10.8% of Winfield households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Winfield compares with U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 476 | Spring Hill KS | 10,777 | $112K | 7.7% | 2.1% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 497 | Attica Township KS | 9,068 | $94K | 3.7% | 2.8% | 10% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 560 | Mission Township KS | 10,195 | $122K | 4.5% | 3.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,435 | Camp Verde AZ | 12,581 | $69K | 15.5% | 5.8% | 30% | C− |
| 2,436 | Macomb IL | 14,530 | $44K | 25.1% | 10.4% | 45% | C− |
| 2,437 | Winfield KS | 11,745 | $57K | 15.4% | 7.3% | 39% | C− |
| 2,438 | Othello WA | 9,237 | $66K | 24.1% | 5.5% | 46% | C− |
| 2,439 | Macomb City Township IL | 14,530 | $44K | 25.1% | 10.4% | 45% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Kansas.
Next door to Winfield
The biggest share goes to Pleasant Valley Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winfield | – | C− | B− | 21 min | $56,656 |
| Walnut Township | under 1% | — | — | 14 min | — |
| Pleasant Valley Township | 4% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Vernon Township | under 1% | — | — | 39 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Walnut Township, Pleasant Valley Township and Vernon Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winfield’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 Winfield: questions
What is the median household income in Winfield?
$56,656 (±$7,908) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winfield?
15.4%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winfield?
21 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winfield work?
39% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arkansas City (14%, 12 mi), Wichita (9%, 37 mi), Pleasant Valley Township (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winfield walkable?
Winfield is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% 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.