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A town of 25,864, settled in 1855.
The typical home is worth about $794K, 7.6 years of the Santa Rosa metro’s $105K median household income. Overall it grades B−, 175th among California's 841 graded towns. The median household earns $134K and it is healthier than 79% of U.S. towns. Its weakest subject is hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 94% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Windsor’s trail network density is 2.3 miles per square mile, against 1.0 in California’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Windsor has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Cunningham-Hembree Estate and Walters Ranch. Windsor is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 80% of U.S. towns.
Where Windsor beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Windsor’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Windsor is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 22,744 in 2000, 26,344 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 1887 and 5 maps from 1920 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Windsor. Close and well known come first.
24 mi Ancient siteFort Ross
31 mi LakeLake Berryessa
36 mi LakeClear Lake
7 mi MuseumCharles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
23 mi National SeashorePoint Reyes National Seashore2.4M visitors a year
21 mi Ancient siteBodega BayFort Ross: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lake Berryessa: Unknown, Public domain · Clear Lake: Unknown, Public domain · Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Point Reyes National Seashore: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bodega Bay: Pixistik1687, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Windsor, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Windsor.
Windsor fares better on crime within California than nationally, owes part of its health edge to its incomes and has commutes shorter than most of California.
Foothill Regional Park, at 207 acres with 6.6 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. 17 miles of trail in 14 parks and preserves. Parks and preserves in Windsor: 14, covering 301 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Foothill Regional Park | 6.6 mi | 207 |
| 2. Hiram Lewis Park | 1.1 mi | 15 |
| 3. Keiser Community Park | 0.4 mi | 27 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Two of the 8 schools are below, and why each made the list. The largest public high school is Windsor High, with 1,700 students. The Windsor Unified school district runs its public schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cali Calmecac Language AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 1,075 | – |
| Windsor HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,700 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Paid flood insurance claims in Windsor since 2005: 2. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 53% come from earthquakes and 46% from inland flooding. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2020.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 4,157 U.S. towns with household incomes like Windsor’s, it is less healthy than 62%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Windsor, 26% have obesity, below both the California town median (29%) and the median of U.S. towns (35%). For adults locally, the share who had a checkup this year is 73%. This California town does better than the California average on 12 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1.
| Windsor | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 29% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 36% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 72% | 79% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Windsor | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.6% | 17.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.4% | 14.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.4% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The average commute for its 11,902 working residents takes 22.7 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
The top destinations are Santa Rosa (25%), Healdsburg (5%) and San Francisco (4%). Most working residents leave Windsor for work: only 11% work in town. Also worth knowing: for Windsor, the typical journey to work is 23 minutes. The town had 7,079 jobs in 2023, up 1,564 from 2013.
| Windsor | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $134,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.9% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 6.6% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Windsor’s midsummer high comes in at 85°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
At 14.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 90% of California’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 42 reported in 2025, 1.6 per 1,000 residents.
In Windsor, the property offense rate is 4.8 per 1,000 residents. Its rate of reported violence stands at 1.6 per 1,000 residents.
| Windsor | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.8 per 1,000 residents | 13.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.6 per 1,000 residents | 2.9 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
The age of the median resident in Windsor is 42.7 years. Adults 18 to 34 are nearly a fifth of residents (24% statewide). In Windsor, 36% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Windsor | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 42.7 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.9 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women. Among residents 45 to 54, 60% are women (CA 50%). Median age: women 44.3, men 41.7.
| Windsor | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.3% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.1% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.8% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.9% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.2% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.1% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.1% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.6% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.9% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 12.4% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.3% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.7% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.3% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.1% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.2% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
For Windsor, the median rent is $2,433 a month. The typical home value in Windsor is about $794,000, up 1.3% in a year, close to the California typical home. 48% of the homes sold in Windsor went for more than their asking price.
| Windsor | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,433 a month | $1,895 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 76% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
1 within 15 miles of the center of Windsor
About 5 of every 100 Windsor residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
2 places in Windsor on the National Register of Historic Places.
Town in California, United States
Windsor is an incorporated town in Sonoma County, California, United States. The town is nine miles (14 km) north of Santa Rosa and 63 miles north of San Francisco. The population was 26,344 as of the 2020 census.
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One town shares a border with Windsor.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | #175 | B− | D− | B | B | A− |
| Larkfield-Wikiup | #353 | C | D− | — | B− | B+ |
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Windsor grades B− overall, better than 54% of U.S. towns and #175 of 841 in California. It grades A− for health, B for safety and B for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
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