Photo: Roger B Wise · CC BY-SA 3.0Winfield has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 1,784 people commute in to work
There are 1,851 jobs in Winfield; 1,012 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Winfield are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 19% of workers have no commute at all, against 9% across West Virginia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Winfield
Winfield is where the jobs are
Winfield has 1,851 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Most jobs in Winfield pay over $40,000 a year
76% of the jobs based in Winfield pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Winfield
19% of Winfield workers work from home, against 9% across West Virginia. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Winfield
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winfield is better than 55% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Winfield’s grade up ($103,276, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winfield could be anywhere from C− to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Winfield
On a workday 945 residents head out to work and 67 work right here.
About 3,200 people are in Winfield on a workday afternoon, 35% more 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.
76% of the jobs in Winfield pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winfield, 2013 → 2023: 2,186 → 1,851. 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 Winfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Winfield, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winfield workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,016 commuters (the 19% who work from home are left out). Across West Virginia: 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.
Commuting in to Winfield: where workers come from
Where Winfield clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
How far it is to work from Winfield
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.
Winfield is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winfield is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,248 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). 2.0% of Winfield households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Winfield is 1,959th among 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 959 | Williamstown WV | 2,922 | $89K | 5.2% | 1.9% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,368 | Bethlehem WV | 2,520 | $83K | 8.8% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,379 | Culloden WV | 3,040 | $73K | 11.8% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,957 | Madison Township PA | 2,514 | $80K | 7.3% | 5.2% | <1% | B− |
| 1,958 | Trainer PA | 1,972 | $81K | 23.9% | 5.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,959 | Winfield WV | 2,381 | $103K | 15.9% | 2.6% | 7% | B− |
| 1,960 | Sheridan Township MI | 2,581 | $76K | 8.1% | 2.7% | 4% | B− |
| 1,961 | Paint Township OH | 1,779 | $84K | 10.3% | 3.7% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Winfield, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
Around Winfield: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Winfield’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 Winfield: questions
What is the median household income in Winfield?
$103,276 (±$34,475) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winfield?
15.9%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winfield?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winfield work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charleston (25%, 18 mi), Teays Valley (10%, 6 mi), South Charleston (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winfield walkable?
Winfield is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winfield
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.