Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0New Windsor has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income B+: better than 73% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 48 minutes each way (Maryland 31, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in New Windsor; the top destination outside it is Westminster (11%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from New Windsor
New Windsor workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 48 minutes each way, against 31 across Maryland. Over a year that’s about 368 hours of commuting, 130 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
New Windsor makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in New Windsor are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs New Windsor residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 665 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind New Windsor’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Windsor is better than 73% of U.S. towns. Household income holds New Windsor’s grade up ($111,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: New 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, New Windsor could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
About 48 minutes each way, longer than most of Maryland
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Windsor workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 566 commuters (the 18% who work from home are left out). Across Maryland: 80% drive alone, 5% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
New Windsor makes things: 42% of its jobs are in goods
378 jobs are based in New Windsor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 384 → 378. 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.
New Windsor quiets down on a workday
On a workday 642 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in New Windsor on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.57 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.
11% of working residents work in Westminster
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where New Windsor clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of New Windsor commutes less than 22 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from New Windsor start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Windsor is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.0% across Maryland, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 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). 4.1% of New Windsor households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Windsor is 1,063rd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of New Windsor, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| 4 | Cabin John MD | 2,179 | $250K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,061 | Raintree Plantation MO | 2,047 | $78K | 7.3% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,062 | Nederland CO | 1,463 | $123K | 2.7% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,063 | New Windsor MD | 1,749 | $111K | 10.7% | 3.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,064 | Guilford Township IL | 1,519 | $116K | 2.7% | 2.2% | 15% | B+ |
| 1,065 | Greer Township IN | 1,939 | $111K | 6.0% | 4.2% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
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 New Windsor: questions
What is the median household income in New Windsor?
$111,250 (±$30,807) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Windsor?
10.7%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Windsor?
48 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Windsor work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Westminster (11%, 6 mi), Baltimore (7%, 31 mi), Eldersburg (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Windsor walkable?
New Windsor is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Windsor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Windsor, from the people who make the trip.
More of New 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.