Work & commute · Windsor Locks

Work & commute in Windsor Locks, CT

Most working residents leave Windsor Locks for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (11%), Windsor (10%) and Enfield (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

718 of 6,227 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,509 Windsor Locks residents head out of town to work, 718 work right here, and 7,515 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Windsor Locks.

5,509live here, work elsewhere

718live and work here

7,515work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Windsor Locks goes to work

Windsor Locks (in town)right here

12%718

Hartford11.4 mi away

11%670

Windsor4.2 mi away

10%642

Enfield6.5 mi away

6%374

Bloomfield7.3 mi away

4%274

Springfield, MA14.2 mi away

4%218

East Windsor5.1 mi away

3%205

East Hartford12 mi away

3%193

South Windsor7.6 mi away

3%170

Manchester12.7 mi away

3%160

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%2,603

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

How far

How far Windsor Locks commutes

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

47%

36%

47%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Windsor Locks is balanced between jobs and homes

1.32jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Windsor Locks are

8,233 jobs are based in Windsor Locks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Windsor Locks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Windsor Locks

8,233 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities41%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Windsor Locks residents hold

6,227 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month68%

−1%

Jobs based in Windsor Locks, 2013 → 2023: 8,281 → 8,233. 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.