Windsor Village Historic District · Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0More people are out of work in Windsor (8.9%) than in 92% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Windsor grades C for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in ten stay in Windsor for work; outside it, Binghamton is the main destination (17%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Windsor stands out on work
Windsor’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Windsor is better than 27% of U.S. towns, #608 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Windsor’s grade up ($72,956, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Windsor could be anywhere from D to B+.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Windsor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windsor workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,466 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who leaves Windsor for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,069 residents head out to work, 229 work right here, and 452 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Windsor on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Windsor: the destinations
Where Windsor clocks in
17% of workers
10% 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.
What Windsor’s employers do
681 jobs are based in Windsor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 626 → 681. 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.
Windsor’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
Windsor is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Windsor is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #625 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,611 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). 3.7% of Windsor households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Windsor places 2,631st of 3,428 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,629 | Richmond MO | 5,968 | $60K | 16.3% | 3.6% | 23% | C |
| 2,630 | Denver City TX | 4,311 | $85K | 13.4% | 6.5% | 32% | C |
| 2,631 | Windsor NY | 5,648 | $73K | 11.1% | 8.9% | 10% | C |
| 2,632 | Norfolk NY | 4,313 | $68K | 13.4% | 3.8% | 9% | C |
| 2,633 | Perry Township OH | 6,243 | $56K | 24.2% | 2.5% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,428 | 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 New York.
Windsor and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Kirkwood (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Windsor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | – | C | C | 26 min | $72,956 |
| Colesville | under 3% | C− | C+ | 22 min | $61,317 |
| Kirkwood | 7% | C+ | C+ | 18 min | $58,588 |
| Sanford | under 3% | C− | B− | 27 min | $76,724 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of 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 Windsor: questions
What is the median household income in Windsor?
$72,956 (±$12,092) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windsor?
11.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windsor?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windsor work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Binghamton (17%, 12 mi), Union (10%, 19 mi), Kirkwood (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windsor walkable?
Windsor is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Windsor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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.