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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
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Windfall is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.76% of the Windfall workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Windfall is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Windfall a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Windfall has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Windfall’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Windfall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Windfall is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.49% of adults 25 and older in the town 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 NeighborhoodScout'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 NeighborhoodScout 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 NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.3% of America.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Windfall are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout'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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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 – 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 (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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
