diff --git a/src/cmd/tojsonl.rs b/src/cmd/tojsonl.rs
index 2448e457c..056fdd87d 100644
--- a/src/cmd/tojsonl.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/tojsonl.rs
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ pub fn run(argv: &[&str]) -> CliResult<()> {
         args.flag_memcheck,
     )?;
 
+    // use regular CSV reader count on Windows
+    // as the polars-powered count_rows is failing CI tests on Windows
+    // I suspect there is an optimization in Polars that is causing this
+    // CI test flakiness
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    let record_count = util::count_rows_regular(&conf)?;
+    #[cfg(not(windows))]
     let record_count = util::count_rows(&conf)?;
 
     // we're calling the schema command to infer data types and enums