Is Windy Hills a good place to live?
The best of Windy Hills’ subject grades are an A+ for incomes and an A for health; the weakest is a D for schools. 34% of residents are 65 or older in Windy Hills, above both the Kentucky town median (17%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). Only 8 of Kentucky’s 236 towns score higher on incomes. On history, just 15 of Kentucky’s 238 towns do worse. Windy Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Windy Hills stand out
Where Windy Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Windy Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.7% | 18.9% |
Community nonprofits per 1,000 residents
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Christ Church School | PK–K | 231 |
99% of working residents leave Windy Hills for work
Where Windy Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Windy Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Windy Hills is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Sons of the American Revolution and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Windy Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
8 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
5 mi Stadium & arenaLynn Family Stadium
6 mi Stadium & arenaKFC Yum! Center
8 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumPhoto credits
United States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynn Family Stadium: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0 · KFC Yum! Center: Jamesmac96, CC BY 3.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Windy Hills: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Windy Hills, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Windy Hills.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Church School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–K | Grades PK–K | 231 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KY on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of adults in Windy Hills report frequent mental distress than in the typical Kentucky or U.S. town
11% of Windy Hills adults report frequent mental distress, below both Kentucky’s towns (18%) and U.S. towns (17%). 14% of Windy Hills adults say their health is fair or poor. Windy Hills beats the Kentucky average on 24 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 3.
| Windy Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 40% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 18% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Windy Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.7% | 18.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.2% | 15.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 14.2% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Windy Hills has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Windy Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The median household income in Windy Hills is $131,000. Jobs based in Windy Hills grew to 398 in 2023, 194 more than in 2013.
| Windy Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $131,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.1% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 15% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Windy Hills has four seasons and pleasant summers
Windy Hills has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 25° and about 15 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Windy Hills, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 63% of U.S. communities. Since 1997, 23 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Windy Hills.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Windy Hills stands out in Kentucky and nationally, with property crime lower than most
Windy Hills’ property crime rate is 0 per 1,000 residents. Only 6 of the 115 Kentucky towns we compare have a lower violent crime rate than Windy Hills. Windy Hills's reported crime rate is well below Kentucky's.
| Windy Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2022) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 12.1 | 14.1 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2022) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 1.3 | 1.9 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2022 · crimes reported to police
Homes in Windy Hills sell for about $375K
85% of households own their home in Windy Hills. No town among the 140 in Kentucky we compare has a higher median rent than Windy Hills.
| Windy Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,262 a month | $934 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 85% | 59% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Windy Hills
Colleges nearby
11 within 15 miles of the center of Windy Hills
About 6 of every 100 Windy Hills residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Kentucky.
About Windy Hills
City in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
Windy Hills is a home rule-class city, incorporated in 1952, in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, Windy Hills had a population of 2,427.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 581 ft
Windy Hills’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Windy Hills.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windy Hills | — | — | C− | — | D | A |
| St. Matthews | #113 | C− | C− | D | D | A |
| Woodlawn Park | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Graymoor-Devondale | #56 | B− | C | — | D | A− |
| Maryhill Estates | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Windy Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Windy Hills and Graymoor-Devondale report no FBI crime data of their own. Woodlawn Park and Maryhill Estates aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Windy Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Windy Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Windy Hills, KY expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $402,000, 74% above the Kentucky typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.