About Windermere

Windermere is a somewhat small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 8,319 people and just one neighborhood, Windermere is the 261st largest community in Florida.

Windermere is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 93.99% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Windermere is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Windermere who work in management occupations (25.09%), sales jobs (14.80%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.99%).

Of important note, Windermere is also a town of artists. Windermere has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Windermere's character.

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

In addition, Windermere is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Windermere is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Windermere really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Windermere perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Windermere is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Windermere isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.57% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Windermere Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Windermere, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Windermere is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 54.43% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Windermere in 2000 was $49,073, which is wealthy relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $196,292 for a family of four. However, Windermere contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Windermere home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Windermere is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Windermere include English, German, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Windermere is English. Some people also speak Spanish.