Marcus DeWitt Carlock House · Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 3.0At 8.0%, unemployment in Winnsboro is higher than in 88% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Winnsboro are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Winnsboro is behind 81% of U.S. towns. About one in five work in Winnsboro itself; outside it, Sulphur Springs draws the most (6%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Winnsboro, in brief
Winnsboro is where the jobs are
Winnsboro has 2,221 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Winnsboro’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winnsboro is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #595 of 642 in Texas. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Winnsboro’s grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winnsboro could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The daily flow of workers through Winnsboro
On a workday 998 residents head out to work, 273 work right here, and 1,948 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Winnsboro on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 in the region Winnsboro works
About 36% 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.
Who travels to work in Winnsboro, and from where
Where Winnsboro clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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 2,221 jobs based in Winnsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winnsboro, 2014 → 2024: 1,826 → 2,221. 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 Winnsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Winnsboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winnsboro workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,180 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
Few in Winnsboro walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winnsboro is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #402 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,392 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 Winnsboro households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winnsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Winnsboro sits among U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Taylor Lake Village TX | 3,774 | $166K | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Hollywood Park TX | 3,140 | $138K | 2.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Talty TX | 3,299 | $155K | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,917 | Portageville MO | 2,702 | $52K | 17.5% | 6.0% | 27% | D |
| 3,918 | St. James MO | 3,925 | $53K | 19.4% | 7.5% | 19% | D |
| 3,919 | Winnsboro TX | 3,678 | $55K | 16.4% | 8.0% | 21% | D |
| 3,920 | Sidney Township MI | 2,651 | $60K | 14.7% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| 3,921 | Hancock NY | 2,717 | $62K | 13.0% | 7.7% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Winnsboro, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Winnsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Winnsboro?
$54,828 (±$13,345) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winnsboro?
16.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winnsboro?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winnsboro work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sulphur Springs (6%, 23 mi), Mount Pleasant (5%, 23 mi), Dallas (3%, 86 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Winnsboro walkable?
Winnsboro is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winnsboro 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 Winnsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winnsboro
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. 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.