City safety & data profile

WindsorCA

Windsor, CA is a 27K-resident city in Sonoma County with a median household income of $133,979.

Sonoma County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Windsor, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Windsor has a population larger than 59% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $801,100.

Data updated 2026-09-04

27K
Population (place)
Top 41%
By size
$133,979
Median income (place)
$801,100
Median home (place)
5.9%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Windsor

Windsor posts a median household income higher than 88% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Top 12%
by median income, US cities

Where Windsor income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$133,979 Top 12% higher than 88% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Windsor $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in CA

Population among 482 CA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Los Angeles is the largest CA city on this list; Alamo leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in CA

Median household income among the same 482-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Alamo posts the highest place-level median income in CA; Los Angeles is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Windsor, CA beyond the headline numbers

Windsor sits inside Sonoma County, California, at roughly 38.55°N, -122.82°W. Population 27,464, $133,979 median household income. Median home value $801,100, median rent $2,433. Poverty rate 5.9%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Hardship is low by national standards: 5.9% of Windsor, CA residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.

The median home in Windsor costs around 6.0 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

Remote work covers 11.9% of Windsor workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.

Among the CDC measures on this page, obesity departs furthest from its peer median: 26.3% in Windsor, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

At 42.7 years, Windsor's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Windsor from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
27,464
Windsor · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$133,979
+50% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$801,100
+94% vs avg
Median Age (place)
42.7
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Sonoma County): Windsor's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
485K-0%
Median Income
$104,674+65%
Median Home Value
$815,500+100%
Poverty Rate
8.9%-25%
Unemployment
5.7%-44%

Economics

Economics indicators for Windsor, CA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$2,433/mo
Poverty Rate
5.9% -52% vs avg
Unemployment 3.6%
Bachelor's Degree+ 36.3%
Work From Home 11.9%
Public Transit 0.4%

Population

White 62.3%
African American 1.5%
Asian 1.9%
Two or More Ethnicities 1.4%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
33.7%
High Blood Pressure
30.2%
Obesity
26.3%
Physical Inactivity
20.9%
Binge Drinking
16.2%
Frequent Mental Distress
16.1%
Frequent Physical Distress
13.1%
Current Smoking
10.6%
Diabetes
10.3%
Current Asthma
10%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 67.6%
Annual Checkup 72.5%

Other Measures

Lack of Health Insurance
8.4%
Coronary Heart Disease
5.9%
Stroke
3.1%

What alerts and safety updates affect Windsor?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Windsor right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet CA-WINDSOR-CA · Windsor

Windsor: 24 tagged alerts; lead category Environment Agency flood warning.

  • VOL-ACTIVE 24 on record
  • MIX-LED 58% uk-floods
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • NEAR-PEER 16 · El Paso

Tagged alert mix: Windsor

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 24 tagged notices on record for Windsor.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: El Paso, TX (16 tagged · Δ8)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Windsor; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse California state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (24 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

El Paso, TX 16 alerts Phoenix, AZ 15 alerts California, MD 15 alerts Victoria, TX 13 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Windsor, CA? ▼
Windsor, CA has a population of 27,464 people, located in Sonoma County, California.
What is the median household income in Windsor? ▼
The median household income in Windsor, CA is $133,979 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 5.9%.
What is the median home value in Windsor? ▼
The median home value in Windsor, CA is $801,100. Median rent is $2,433/month.
What are the top health concerns in Windsor? ▼
The top health indicators in Windsor include Short Sleep Duration (33.7%), High Blood Pressure (30.2%), Obesity (26.3%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Windsor? ▼
The median age in Windsor, CA is 42.7 years. 36.3% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Windsor, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (5.9% here).

Eagan, MN 5.9% Cedar Park, TX 5.9% Minnetonka, MN 5.9% Shakopee, MN 5.9%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($133,979 here).

East Meadow, NY $133,971 Melrose, MA $133,953 South Jordan, UT $134,047 Coral Gables, FL $134,216

Compare Windsor with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

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Nearby Cities 8

Healdsburg, CA 12K Santa Rosa, CA 178K Rohnert Park, CA 42K Petaluma, CA 60K Agua Caliente, CA 27K Sonoma, CA 11K Clearlake, CA 15K Novato, CA 56K
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Using Windsor's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Windsor area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Windsor against California peers on any ranking lens. Explore California

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Sonoma County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.