Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Winfield Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Winfield Township has 69 jobs for 850 working residents. Jobs and income earn Winfield Township B+; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 3.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 43.7 in Jersey City.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Winfield Township
Winfield Township is a place people come home to
There are 69 jobs based in Winfield Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Winfield Township has about 670 people in it, 54% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Winfield Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 25 minutes, against 31 across New Jersey. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical New Jersey worker, and quicker than any town next door (28 to 35 minutes). Time on the road ↓
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 850 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Winfield Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Winfield Township is better than 70% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Winfield Township’s grade up (among the top U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($64,052, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (8.4%) is left out: Winfield Township’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, Winfield Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who leaves Winfield Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 836 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Winfield Township on a workday afternoon, 54% 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Winfield Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winfield Township workers work from home, vs 17% across New Jersey. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 706 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across New Jersey: 75% drive alone, 10% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
12% of working residents work in New York City
Where Winfield Township clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Winfield Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winfield Township, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 69. 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 Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Winfield Township’s workers travel
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.
Winfield Township 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, Winfield Township is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Winfield Township 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 758 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 99% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% 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). 10.7% of Winfield Township households have no vehicle (New Jersey 11.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Winfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Winfield Township ranks: 1,128th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Sea Girt NJ | 1,874 | $214K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Oldmans Township NJ | 1,954 | $113K | 3.2% | 11.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,126 | Spring Point Township IL | 1,305 | $90K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,127 | Forest Township MN | 1,377 | $126K | 10.4% | 4.2% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,128 | Winfield Township NJ | 1,450 | $64K | 8.5% | 8.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,129 | Palestine IN | 1,085 | $92K | 4.5% | 5.3% | 0% | B+ |
| 1,130 | Camden NC | 1,115 | $94K | 1.1% | 9.7% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Winfield Township, the top three, the last and three more from New Jersey.
11% of Winfield Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Clark Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winfield Township | – | B+ | A | 25 min | $64,052 |
| Clark Township | 5% | A+ | A− | 28 min | $133,504 |
| Linden | 3% | B | A+ | 32 min | $92,915 |
| Cranford Township | 3% | A+ | A+ | 35 min | $155,972 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winfield Township’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 Township: questions
What is the median household income in Winfield Township?
$64,052 (±$8,690) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,556 across New Jersey and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winfield Township?
8.5%, against 9.7% across New Jersey and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winfield Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 31 across New Jersey and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winfield Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (12%, 18 mi), Clark Township (5%, 2 mi), Newark (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winfield Township walkable?
Winfield Township is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winfield Township without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 99% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winfield Township
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.