Knox Headquarters · Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0New Windsor has higher unemployment (8.9%) than 92% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn New Windsor B; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in ten stay in New Windsor for work; outside it, New York City is the main destination (16%, 57 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets New Windsor apart on work
How New Windsor earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Windsor is better than 61% of U.S. towns, #328 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds New Windsor’s grade up (5.4%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Windsor could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Where in the region New Windsor works
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.
Who commutes out of New Windsor, and who commutes in
On a workday 10,113 residents head out to work, 1,101 work right here, and 7,927 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 (0.81 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.
Out of New Windsor to work: where people go
Where New Windsor clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Inside New Windsor’s 9,028 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 8,536 → 9,028. 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 New Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 37 minutes in New Windsor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Windsor workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,997 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In New Windsor, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Windsor is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #310 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 13,029 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 3% 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). 6.1% of New Windsor households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of New Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, New Windsor is 875th of 1,544 U.S. towns of 19,000 to 38,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Eastchester NY | 34,015 | $156K | 4.8% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Clifton Park NY | 37,775 | $133K | 2.3% | 2.0% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | Taylors SC | 24,505 | $77K | 10.6% | 4.0% | 3% | B |
| 874 | La Puente CA | 36,423 | $87K | 11.3% | 6.2% | 3% | B |
| 875 | New Windsor NY | 27,844 | $95K | 5.4% | 8.9% | 10% | B |
| 876 | Lakeside CA | 22,447 | $96K | 9.9% | 6.8% | 4% | B |
| 877 | Springfield Township OH | 26,958 | $81K | 10.4% | 4.4% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,544 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 New Windsor, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
21% of New Windsor works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Newburgh (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Windsor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Windsor | – | B | A− | 37 min | $95,071 |
| Cornwall | 3% | A− | A− | 31 min | $114,635 |
| Newburgh | 7% | C− | A+ | 26 min | $56,960 |
| Newburgh | 6% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Montgomery | 3% | B | A− | 34 min | $92,939 |
| Hamptonburgh | under 3% | A− | B | 38 min | $122,250 |
| Blooming Grove | 2% | B− | A− | 46 min | $95,967 |
| Fishkill | under 3% | B | B+ | 36 min | $101,423 |
| Firthcliffe | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Newburgh: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Firthcliffe: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Windsor’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 New Windsor: questions
What is the median household income in New Windsor?
$95,071 (±$6,658) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Windsor?
5.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Windsor?
37 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Windsor work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (16%, 57 mi), Newburgh (7%, 5 mi), Newburgh (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Windsor walkable?
New Windsor is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Windsor without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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.