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Windsor, PA

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Overview


Windsor is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,348 people and just one neighborhood, Windsor is the 751st largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Windsor was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Windsor is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.93% of the Windsor workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Windsor is a borough of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Windsor who work in sales jobs (13.22%), office and administrative support (11.41%), and food service (4.89%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small borough, Windsor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Windsor with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.17% of adults in Windsor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Windsor in 2018 was $21,411, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,644 for a family of four. However, Windsor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Windsor is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. 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. Windsor also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.06% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Windsor include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Windsor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.4% 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, 30.5% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 18.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.

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 Windsor, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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