Work & commute · Winchester

Work & commute in Winchester, MO

Most working residents leave Winchester for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (11%), Chesterfield (8%) and Maryland Heights (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 733 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 729 Winchester residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 96 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Winchester.

729live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

96work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Winchester goes to work

St. Louis15.5 mi away

11%82

Chesterfield5.6 mi away

8%59

Maryland Heights9.3 mi away

5%35

Creve Coeur6.7 mi away

4%31

Town and Country4.1 mi away

4%28

Ballwin1.3 mi away

4%26

Clayton11.2 mi away

3%24

Fenton5.9 mi away

3%23

Kirkwood5.7 mi away

2%18

Manchester1.2 mi away

2%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%390

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

How far

How far Winchester commutes

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

48%

44%

48%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Winchester is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.14 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Winchester are

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

Jobs based in Winchester

100 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Winchester residents hold

733 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month68%

−56%

Jobs based in Winchester, 2013 → 2023: 226 → 100. 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.