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 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in West Winfield
A typical one-way commute lasts 37 minutes, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. Only 5% work in West Winfield; the top destination outside it is Utica (13%, 15 miles). There are 391 jobs in West Winfield, and 314 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
West Winfield and work: the main findings
The kinds of work in West Winfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in West Winfield, 2014 → 2024: 361 → 391. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs West Winfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in West Winfield, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 299 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 376 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in West Winfield on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where West Winfield goes to work
Where West Winfield clocks in
13% 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.
The daily trip from West Winfield: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of West Winfield workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 377 commuters (the 11% 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.
How far West Winfield goes to work
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 West Winfield: questions
What is the median household income in West Winfield?
$76,667 (±$19,431) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in West Winfield?
10.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from West Winfield?
37 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in West Winfield work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (13%, 15 mi), Winfield (7%, 2 mi), Herkimer (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around West Winfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from West Winfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of West Winfield
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.