Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Winchester works elsewhere
Home is the office for 4% of workers, against 17% across New Hampshire. Employers in Winchester report 833 jobs, against 1,953 working residents. Jobs and income earn Winchester C−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Winchester
Winchester and Keene trade workers both ways
Keene is the top workplace for Winchester residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Winchester come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Winchester workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 17% across New Hampshire. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Winchester makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Winchester are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Winchester residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Winchester has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Winchester went from 600 in 2013 to 833 in 2023, +39%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Winchester’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winchester is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #121 of 126 in New Hampshire. Household income holds Winchester’s grade up ($67,723, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winchester could be anywhere from D to B.
23% of working residents work in Keene
Where Winchester clocks in
23% of workers
7% 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.
About 29 minutes to work from Winchester
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winchester workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,973 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across New Hampshire: 87% 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.
Making and building: 38% of jobs based in Winchester
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winchester, 2013 → 2023: 600 → 833. 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 Winchester’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Winchester by day and by night
On a workday 1,670 residents head out to work, 283 work right here, and 550 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Winchester on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
How far Winchester’s workers travel
About 21% 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.
For most of Winchester, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winchester is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns, #108 of 126 in New Hampshire. Both inputs place Winchester near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,061 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.9% of Winchester households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winchester’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, Winchester comes 3,250th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 160 | North Hampton NH | 4,526 | $146K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 218 | Greenland NH | 4,143 | $163K | 0.5% | 2.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 278 | Brentwood NH | 4,923 | $166K | 3.3% | 2.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,248 | Port Richey FL | 3,655 | $51K | 20.7% | 5.6% | 3% | C− |
| 3,249 | Omak WA | 5,185 | $77K | 26.1% | 4.4% | 34% | C− |
| 3,250 | Winchester NH | 4,281 | $68K | 14.1% | 5.7% | 14% | C− |
| 3,251 | Knox Township OH | 4,210 | $50K | 20.5% | 3.6% | 4% | C− |
| 3,252 | Arthurtown SC | 3,272 | $21K | 63.2% | 14.1% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | 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 Winchester, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Around Winchester: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winchester workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester | – | C− | C− | 29 min | $67,723 |
| Richmond | under 2% | B+ | C− | 35 min | $89,375 |
| Swanzey | 4% | B | C+ | 24 min | $81,595 |
| Hinsdale | 3% | C | B− | 24 min | $69,191 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Swanzey. Darker towns draw more of Winchester’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 Winchester: questions
What is the median household income in Winchester?
$67,723 (±$10,625) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winchester?
14.1%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winchester?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winchester work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Keene (23%, 12 mi), Brattleboro (7%, 13 mi), Swanzey (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winchester walkable?
Winchester is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winchester without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winchester, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winchester
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.