Bertie Memorial Hospital · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWindsor has lower household incomes than 96% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; North Carolina has 16%. The poverty rate is 15.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina. Jobs and income earn Windsor D; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Windsor stands out on work
Windsor trades workers with the towns around it
Windsor has about as many jobs (1,302) as working residents (1,147), but they are mostly different people: 1,009 residents leave for work each day while 1,164 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Windsor are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Windsor’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Windsor is Greenville, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (93) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Windsor are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical North Carolina worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Windsor workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Windsor’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Windsor is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
Jobs & income in Windsor: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Windsor is better than 5% of U.S. towns, #275 of 290 in North Carolina. The poverty rate holds Windsor’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($40,714, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (13.2%) is left out: Windsor’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Windsor could be anywhere from D− to C−.
A workday in Windsor: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,009 residents head out to work, 138 work right here, and 1,164 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 (1.14 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.
Windsor’s commute, mile by mile
About 30% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Windsor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windsor workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 536 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 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.
In Windsor, services account for most jobs
1,302 jobs are based in Windsor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 1,204 → 1,302. 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.
8% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Windsor clocks in
8% of workers
4% 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.
Windsor is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Windsor is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns, #45 of 290 in North Carolina. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 578 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). 10.5% of Windsor households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Windsor sits among U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 198 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,295 | Loogootee IN | 2,633 | $50K | 26.4% | 8.5% | 16% | D |
| 4,296 | Ava MO | 3,231 | $43K | 21.7% | 5.7% | 34% | D |
| 4,297 | Windsor NC | 3,469 | $41K | 15.5% | 13.2% | 12% | D |
| 4,298 | Tishomingo OK | 3,123 | $40K | 36.7% | 6.2% | 23% | D |
| 4,299 | Philippi WV | 2,846 | $46K | 29.5% | 8.1% | 21% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | 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 Windsor, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
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?
$40,714 (±$10,486) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windsor?
15.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windsor?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windsor work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (8%, 37 mi), Ahoskie (5%, 20 mi), Raleigh (4%, 96 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windsor walkable?
Windsor is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Windsor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% 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.