Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Winhall’s household incomes are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns
5.3% of residents are in poverty; Vermont has 10.1%. Jobs and income earn Winhall B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in ten work in Winhall; the top destination outside it is Stratton (13%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Winhall and work: the main findings
A lot of Winhall works one town over
39% of working residents work in a town that borders Winhall: Manchester (13%), Stratton (13%) and Londonderry (8%). Next door ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Winhall than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Winhall fell from 351 in 2013 to 219 in 2023, −38%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 322 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Winhall
On income, poverty and job access, Winhall is better than 54% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Winhall’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Winhall’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, Winhall could be anywhere from C− to B+.
What work there is in Winhall: 219 jobs
219 jobs are based in Winhall.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winhall, 2013 → 2023: 351 → 219. 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 Winhall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Winhall, and who commutes in
On a workday 296 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 193 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.68 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.
Out of Winhall to work: where people go
Where Winhall clocks in
13% of workers
13% 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.
Getting to work from Winhall takes 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 Winhall workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 354 commuters (the 18% who work from home are left out). Across Vermont: 82% 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.
The commute from Winhall, by distance
About 25% 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.
For most of Winhall, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winhall is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Winhall 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 434 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). 0.0% of Winhall households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winhall’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Winhall ranks: 1,123rd of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 388 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 505 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 654 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,121 | Newbury Township KS | 1,093 | $77K | 7.0% | 1.2% | 1% | B− |
| 1,122 | King Township PA | 1,172 | $74K | 5.7% | 3.2% | 3% | B− |
| 1,123 | Winhall VT | 1,147 | $96K | 5.3% | 4.3% | 8% | B− |
| 1,124 | Fort Recovery OH | 1,476 | $67K | 2.7% | 1.4% | 16% | B− |
| 1,125 | Harford Township PA | 1,249 | $90K | 7.9% | 4.3% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Winhall, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
Work next door: 39% of Winhall’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winhall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winhall | – | B− | B− | 27 min | $95,500 |
| Manchester | 13% | B− | A | 14 min | $94,886 |
| Stratton | 13% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Sunderland | under 2% | C+ | C | 23 min | $88,523 |
| Jamaica | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Londonderry | 8% | B+ | B+ | 24 min | $85,179 |
| Peru | 5% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Dorset | under 2% | C+ | A | 22 min | $111,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stratton, Jamaica and Peru: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Manchester. Darker towns draw more of Winhall’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 Winhall: questions
What is the median household income in Winhall?
$95,500 (±$23,228) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winhall?
5.3%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winhall?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winhall work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stratton (13%, 7 mi), Manchester (13%, 5 mi), Londonderry (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winhall walkable?
Winhall is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winhall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winhall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winhall
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.