Windsor is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,899 people and just one neighborhood, Windsor is the 190th largest community in Virginia.
Windsor is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Windsor is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Windsor who work in management occupations (10.93%), office and administrative support (10.50%), and healthcare suport services (7.17%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Windsor, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Windsor has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Windsor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Windsor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Windsor may be for you.
One downside of living in Windsor is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Windsor, the average commute to work is 31.82 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Windsor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Windsor with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.26% of adults in Windsor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Windsor in 2022 was $32,552, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,208 for a family of four. However, Windsor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Windsor is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Windsor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Windsor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Windsor include English, Irish, African, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Windsor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.0% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Windsor are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.5%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Windsor, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.3%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report African roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.