Overview
Windfall is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,527 people and just one neighborhood, Windfall is the 205th largest community in Indiana.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Windfall, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.76% of Windfall鈥檚 employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Windfall is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Windfall who work in office and administrative support (21.32%), sales jobs (6.69%), and management occupations (6.10%).
Of important note, Windfall is also a town of artists. Windfall has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Windfall鈥檚 character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Windfall 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, Windfall really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Windfall perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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.
Windfall is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Windfall who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.49% of adults in Windfall have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Windfall in 2022 was $36,842, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,368 for a family of four. However, Windfall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Windfall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Windfall residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Windfall include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Windfall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Occupations
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive 蘑菇视频 analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than 蘑菇视频 found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Windfall are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.5%), and 9.2% 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 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture 鈥� some more unique than others 鈥� based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households 鈥� and importantly 鈥� on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Windfall, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (35.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.4%) 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.
