Photo: Wikilester 3 · CC BY-SA 4.0Winnfield’s household incomes are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
37.8% of residents are in poverty, next to 18.9% for Louisiana as a whole. For jobs and income Winnfield is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). About one in three work in Winnfield itself; outside it, Natchitoches draws the most (4%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Winnfield, in a few figures
Inside Winnfield’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Winnfield’s grade up (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winnfield could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Commuting from Winnfield: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winnfield workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,284 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across Louisiana: 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.
A workday in Winnfield: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,113 residents head out to work, 521 work right here, and 1,895 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Winnfield on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 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 Winnfield goes to work
Where Winnfield clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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.
What the 2,416 jobs in Winnfield are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winnfield, 2013 → 2023: 2,673 → 2,416. 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 Winnfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Winnfield commutes
About 26% 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: Winnfield
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,299 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). 13.3% of Winnfield households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winnfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Winnfield sits among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 309 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,356 | Westlake LA | 4,763 | $68K | 12.1% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,382 | Maurice LA | 3,215 | $91K | 11.8% | 3.4% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,950 | Kayenta AZ | 4,927 | $58K | 37.7% | 13.5% | 17% | D− |
| 3,951 | Prestonsburg KY | 3,618 | $26K | 45.3% | 19.3% | 35% | D− |
| 3,952 | Winnfield LA | 4,480 | $42K | 37.8% | 11.8% | 32% | D− |
| 3,953 | Waldron AR | 3,387 | $34K | 19.4% | 13.8% | 39% | D− |
| 3,954 | Yuma CO | 3,424 | $48K | 31.5% | 8.9% | 36% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Winnfield, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
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 Winnfield: questions
What is the median household income in Winnfield?
$42,318 (±$24,181) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winnfield?
37.8%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winnfield?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winnfield work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Natchitoches (4%, 30 mi), Alexandria (3%, 45 mi), Ruston (3%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winnfield walkable?
Winnfield is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winnfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winnfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winnfield
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.