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New Windsor, MD

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Overview


New Windsor is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,470 people and just one neighborhood, New Windsor is the 214th largest community in Maryland.

Occupations and Workforce

New Windsor is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.11% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, New Windsor is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Windsor who work in management occupations (15.43%), sales jobs (10.80%), and business and financial occupations (8.64%).

Also of interest is that New Windsor has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in New Windsor telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.94% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, New Windsor is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Windsor a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, New Windsor has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Windsor’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in New Windsor is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Windsor, the average commute to work is 35.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, New Windsor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of New Windsor are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.84% of adults in New Windsor have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Windsor in 2022 was $48,134, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $192,536 for a family of four. However, New Windsor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Windsor is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Windsor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Windsor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Windsor include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in New Windsor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in New Windsor, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Maryland. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Windsor are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.3% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 57.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 17.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.1%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in New Windsor, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.4%), along with some Ukrainian ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (78.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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