Work & commute · Windsor

Work & commute in Windsor, CT

Most working residents leave Windsor for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (19%), Bloomfield (6%) and East Hartford (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

2,089 of 14,772 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 12,683 Windsor residents head out of town to work, 2,089 work right here, and 25,921 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Windsor.

12,683live here, work elsewhere

2,089live and work here

25,921work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Windsor goes to work

Hartford7.3 mi away

19%2,836

Windsor (in town)right here

14%2,089

Bloomfield3.9 mi away

6%829

East Hartford8.4 mi away

4%583

Manchester10.2 mi away

4%556

West Hartford8.3 mi away

3%473

Enfield9.9 mi away

3%391

South Windsor5.5 mi away

2%357

Windsor Locks4.2 mi away

2%355

Farmington13 mi away

2%350

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%5,953

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

How far

How far Windsor commutes

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

60%

24%

60%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Windsor is a job hub

1.90jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Windsor are

28,010 jobs are based in Windsor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Windsor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Windsor

28,010 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Windsor residents hold

14,772 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+8%

Jobs based in Windsor, 2013 → 2023: 25,848 → 28,010. 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.