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Windsor

A separate town—not Windsor Castle Park.

Windsor landscapeQuiet Western Tidewater crossroads, local country stores, and pine woodlands.

Explore Windsor as its own Isle of Wight town. Keep it distinct from the park in Smithfield and validate local services before making an everyday-living recommendation.

Editorial place sketch · research snapshot, not verified personal suitability.

Windsor is within Isle of Wight County. Town and county populations overlap. Service and tax relationships require address-level verification.

POPULATION

2,920

2024 estimate · Secondary; primary reconciliation pending

Population evidence

COUNTY / SHARED ECONOMIC CONTEXT

$1.65B

Isle of Wight County · 2024 · current dollars

Economic evidence

SCHOOL-DIVISION DIRECTORY

9

Isle of Wight · entries as of 2026-09-06

School inventory evidence

GDP and school counts are context—not desirability scores. School counts describe the serving division, not necessarily buildings inside this place.

PUBLIC SAFETY & LAW ENFORCEMENT

Regional benchmark (cities and counties): 314 violent / 1,674 property per 100k

Virginia State Police Uniform Crime Reporting / VIBRS (2024). Standardized per-capita exposure rates, not subjective neighborhood reputation.

VIOLENT CRIME RATE

150.0

↓ Below regional avg (313.8) · per 100k

Hand-entered town figure, pending verification

VSP VIBRS evidence

PROPERTY CRIME RATE

920.0

↓ Below regional avg (1,674) · 2024

Hand-entered town figure, pending verification

VSP VIBRS evidence

SWORN LAW ENFORCEMENT

7

Authorized sworn police/sheriff officers

Hand-entered town figure, pending verification

Staffing evidence

SCHOOL DIVISION BENCHMARKS

Regional benchmark (cities and counties): 74.6% SOL · 90.8% Graduation

Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) 2023–2024 School Quality Profiles for serving division (Isle of Wight).

SOL COMPOSITE PASS RATE

78.2%

↑ At or above regional avg (74.6%)

Serving school division: Isle of Wight

VDOE Quality Profile

ON-TIME GRADUATION RATE

93.8%

↑ At or above regional avg (90.8%)

Serving school division: Isle of Wight

VDOE Quality Profile

SERVING SCHOOL DIVISION

Isle of Wight

4 elementary · 3 middle · 2 high · 0 prekindergarten · 0 charter

Directory details

HOUSING COSTS & LOCAL TAXES

Regional benchmark (cities and counties): $329k home · $1,381 rent · $0.94 tax

U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2020–2024) and Virginia Department of Taxation (TY 2024).

MEDIAN HOME VALUE

$281k

At or below regional mean ($329k)

±$41,802 margin (90% confidence)

Census ACS evidence

MEDIAN MONTHLY RENT

$950

At or below regional mean ($1,381)

±$371 margin (90% confidence)

Census ACS evidence

REAL ESTATE TAX RATE

$0.86

At or below regional avg ($0.94)

County levy plus town levy for town residents; shown for context, not ranked

Virginia Tax Survey

INDEPENDENT FOOD SCENE

Regional benchmark (cities and counties): 14.4 cuisine groups · 15.8 restaurants per 10k

Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap establishment records (2026), chains excluded by brand or name. Counts, not ratings.

DISTINCT CUISINE GROUPS

5

chinese · italian · latin american · mexican · pan asian

Overture Places evidence

INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS

6

20.6 per 10,000 residents

OpenStreetMap cross-check

INDEPENDENT COFFEE ROASTERS

0

3 independent coffee shops; no roastery self-described on its own site

Roaster sites verified 2026-09-08

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION & DAILY COMMUTE

Regional benchmark (cities and counties): 26.9 min commute · 90.5% broadband

HRTPO Regional Active Transportation Network & U.S. Census Bureau commuting data.

MULTI-USE TRAIL MILEAGE

1.5 mi

Designated paved greenways and multi-use paths

Hand-entered town figure, pending verification

HRTPO Active Transportation

MEAN COMMUTE TIME

31.5 min

Longer than regional avg (26.9m)

±8.5 min margin (90% confidence)

Census ACS evidence

BROADBAND ADOPTION

87.4%

Below regional adoption (90.5%)

±9.1 pts margin (90% confidence)

Census ACS evidence
Town-scale explorationIsle of Wight service contextWestern Tidewater orientation

RECORDED OPPORTUNITIES

Get to know the place.

No named amenity anchors are captured in this seed corpus. That is a research gap, not evidence that amenities are absent.

TRADEOFFS & NEXT CHECKS

What to look into.

Park-name matching would produce a wrong location.

Current local amenity and employer inventories are incomplete.

Actual housing, routes, school assignment, provider access, taxes, insurance, and parcel risks require address-level verification.

Serving school division

Isle of Wight

4 elementary · 3 middle · 2 high · 0 prekindergarten · 0 charter

ECONOMIC CONTEXT

Top 10 reported employers

reported locality employment · 2025 Q1

Published 2025-08-15; table visually reviewed, PDF page 23. Source reporting entities retained; no brand-level aggregation.

verified ranked 10
  1. Smithfield Fresh Meats Corporation
  2. Isle of Wight County School Board
  3. County of Isle of Wight
  4. International Paper Company
  5. Smithfield Support Services Corp
  6. Green Mountain Coffee Roa Inc
  7. Food Lion
  8. Cost Plus Inc
  9. Publix Nc Employee Services, LLC
  10. Tak Investments Holding LLC
Employer evidence
Sources, dates & geographic scope · 13 records

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Source snapshot hampton-roads-2026-09-10. This app migration did not re-audit the external research.