Most of Windsor commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
6% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). Windsor has 59 jobs; 625 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Windsor are C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Windsor, in brief
Windsor’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Windsor is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Windsor’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Windsor’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, Windsor could be anywhere from C to B.
Windsor by day and by night
On a workday 620 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 54 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Windsor on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
9% of working residents work in York Township
Where Windsor clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 59. 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.
Time on the road from Windsor: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Windsor workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 548 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Miles to work from Windsor
About 15% 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.
Driving is how Windsor gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Windsor is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Windsor 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 583 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). 4.3% of Windsor households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Windsor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Windsor is 3,058th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,056 | Lucasville OH | 1,527 | $64K | 8.4% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,057 | Westwood Shores TX | 1,466 | $46K | 2.9% | 7.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,058 | Windsor PA | 1,420 | $64K | 22.3% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,059 | Edgewood TX | 1,763 | $74K | 12.7% | 3.5% | 8% | C |
| 3,060 | Fargo Township KS | 1,236 | $61K | 5.5% | 0.4% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Windsor, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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?
$63,781 (±$4,044) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Windsor?
22.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Windsor?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Windsor work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are York Township (9%, 5 mi), York (8%, 8 mi), Springettsbury Township (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Windsor walkable?
Windsor is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 1% 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.