Photo: SilentMatt Psychedelic · CC BY-SA 4.0Windham has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
306 jobs are based in Windham for 671 working residents. For jobs and income Windham is better than 24% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). Measured by household income, Windham is behind 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Windham, in brief
Windham makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Windham are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Windham residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Windham pay better than its residents’ jobs
74% of the jobs based in Windham pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 58% of the jobs Windham residents hold. 90% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Windham. The jobs ↓
Windham workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 671 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Windham’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Windham’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out: Windham’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Windham could be anywhere from D to B−.
Factories, building and farms: 52% of the jobs in Windham
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windham, 2013 → 2023: 387 → 306. 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 Windham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Windham takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windham workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 758 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
Who works in Windham, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 641 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 276 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Windham on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
8% of working residents work in Streetsboro
Where Windham clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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 commute from Windham, by distance
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.
In Windham, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 798 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.5% of Windham households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windham’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Windham is 3,843rd among 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 23 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
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| 45 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,841 | Jonesville MI | 2,175 | $65K | 17.8% | 5.4% | 11% | C− |
| 3,842 | Wells NV | 1,245 | $107K | 21.3% | 5.5% | 31% | C− |
| 3,843 | Windham OH | 1,675 | $54K | 23.0% | 5.5% | 4% | C− |
| 3,844 | Chesapeake WV | 1,270 | $61K | 21.5% | 2.3% | 1% | C− |
| 3,845 | Mars Hill ME | 1,318 | $65K | 9.6% | 10.8% | 21% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Windham, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Windham
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Windham workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windham | – | C− | B | 29 min | $54,219 |
| Windham Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Windham Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Windham’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 Windham: questions
What is the median household income in Windham?
$54,219 (±$12,839) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windham?
23.0%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windham?
29 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windham work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Streetsboro (8%, 16 mi), Cleveland (7%, 37 mi), Aurora (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windham walkable?
Windham is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Windham without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Windham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Windham
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.