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Windber borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Windber borough is a Census borough of 3,860 people across 1.97 square miles of land, in Somerset County. Median household income is $52,438, 70.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.8 m.
70 sourced place values · tier FULL · 8 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Windber
What Windber is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1.97 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,962
- County holding the largest share of its areaSomerset County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Windber
How many people live in Windber
- Population3,860
- Median age41.2
- Population under 18869 plus or minus 190
- Share under 1822.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Population 65 and over760 plus or minus 156
- Share 65 and over19.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households1,753
- Family households1,051
- Share of households that are families60.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Windber
Income and work in Windber
- Median household income$52,438 plus or minus $11,561
- Per capita income$29,227
- Civilian labor force1,958
- Employed1,838
- Unemployed120 plus or minus 77
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over2,788
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.6 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Windber
Housing in Windber
- Housing units2,087
- Occupied units1,753
- Vacant units334 plus or minus 121
- Vacancy rate16.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Owner occupied1,233
- Renter occupied520 plus or minus 121
- Ownership rate70.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$99,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$750
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.2 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Single family units1,633
- Share single family78.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more442 plus or minus 134
- Share in buildings of two or more21.2 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Mobile homes12 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1947
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Windber
How Windber gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,655
- Commuting under 15 minutes796 plus or minus 301
- Share commuting under 15 minutes48.1 percent plus or minus 17.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more297 plus or minus 115
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Drove alone81.9 percent
- Carpooled7.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home8.0 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Windber
SBA loans in Windber (7(a))
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$2,845,000
- Average approval$474,167
- Median approval$235,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,932,000
- Largest approval$1,932,000
- Jobs supported75
- Jobs per approval12.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full0
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.7 percent
- Share to franchises16.7 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Windber
Flood risk in Windber
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number422046
- Currently effective map date09/19/12
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Somerset County, not Windber
Somerset County context, not Windber figures
These are Somerset County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Windber measurements.
- Establishments in Somerset County1,647
- Employment at those establishments, Somerset County18,678
- Covered employment, Somerset County23,303
- Average annual pay, Somerset County$50,925
- Average weekly wage, Somerset County$979
- Housing units permitted, Somerset County72
- Of those, single family, Somerset County72
- County product, 2024, Somerset County$3,037,840,000
- County product change over the prior year, Somerset County2.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Somerset County$62,846
Every figure in this section is published for Somerset County as a whole and is not a measurement of Windber. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Windber questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Windber, Pennsylvania?
3,860, in 1,753 households. Windber borough covers 1.97 square miles of land, which is 1,962 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Windber in?
Somerset County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Windber?
$52,438. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $99,000. Median gross rent is $750 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Windber businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $2.8 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $235,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Windber, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Windber borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Windber. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Windber in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Windber appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 422046, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Windber figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Somerset County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Windber.
Is zoning published for Windber?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.