Work & commute · South Windsor

Work & commute in South Windsor, CT

Most working residents leave South Windsor for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (19%), Manchester (6%) and East Hartford (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

1,320 of 12,655 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,335 South Windsor residents head out of town to work, 1,320 work right here, and 11,776 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in South Windsor.

11,335live here, work elsewhere

1,320live and work here

11,776work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where South Windsor goes to work

Hartford7.3 mi away

19%2,430

South Windsor (in town)right here

10%1,320

Manchester5.1 mi away

6%819

East Hartford5.6 mi away

6%709

Windsor5.5 mi away

5%581

Bloomfield8.4 mi away

4%517

West Hartford10.4 mi away

3%322

Enfield10.1 mi away

2%304

Glastonbury10.2 mi away

2%286

Farmington15.5 mi away

2%282

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%5,085

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far South Windsor commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

56%

28%

56%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

South Windsor is balanced between jobs and homes

1.03jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.03 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in South Windsor are

13,096 jobs are based in South Windsor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs South Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in South Windsor

13,096 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs South Windsor residents hold

12,655 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+11%

Jobs based in South Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 11,773 → 13,096. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.