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Windsor Heights, IA

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Overview


Windsor Heights is a somewhat small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 5,109 people and just one neighborhood, Windsor Heights is the 89th largest community in Iowa.

Windsor Heights real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Windsor Heights house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Windsor Heights is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Windsor Heights is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Windsor Heights who work in sales jobs (15.26%), office and administrative support (10.76%), and business and financial occupations (10.30%).

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

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

A relatively large number of people in Windsor Heights telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.49% 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

Windsor Heights is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Windsor Heights ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Windsor Heights, 42.83% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Windsor Heights in 2018 was $42,276, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,104 for a family of four. However, Windsor Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Windsor Heights is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Windsor Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Windsor Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Windsor Heights include German, English, Irish, Afghan, and Scandinavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav 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 Heights are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.5% 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 60.8% of America'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, 41.9% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.9%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 84.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Heights, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.0%), among others. In addition, 12.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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