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Windy Hills, KY

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Overview


Windy Hills is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,408 people and just one neighborhood, Windy Hills is the 168th largest community in Kentucky.

Windy Hills real estate is some of the most expensive in Kentucky, although Windy Hills house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Windy Hills is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Windy Hills is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Windy Hills who work in management occupations (19.47%), sales jobs (13.24%), and healthcare (11.59%).

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

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

A relatively large number of people in Windy Hills telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.37% 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

In addition, Windy Hills 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, Windy Hills is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Windy Hills 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 city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Windy Hills has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Windy Hills’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Demographics

If knowledge is power, Windy Hills is a pretty powerful place. 70.14% of the adults in Windy Hills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Windy Hills in 2022 was $71,052, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $284,208 for a family of four.

The people who call Windy Hills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Windy Hills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Windy Hills include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Windy Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

If you are planning to retire in Kentucky, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Kentucky, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 98.5% of neighborhoods in KY. If a Kentucky retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates, highly educated executives and families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

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 Windy Hills are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.3% of America'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, 59.3% 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 18.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.7%), and 8.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households.

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 Windy Hills, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (60.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.8%) 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.


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