In March, I downloaded the voter registration data for the state of Pennsylvania. (This is public data, subject to some limitations, primarily that it must be used for voting research, and personal data must not be disclosed.) I extracted the information about the residents in the 14 communities that are part of the CCRC Area Council (CAC) that KCC belongs to.

In addition to Kendal and Crosslands, those CCRCs are: Beaumont, Cathedral Village, Dunwoody, Freedom Village, Granite Farms, The Hill at Whitemarsh, Lima Estates, The Quadrangle, Riddle Village, Waverly Heights, Wesley Enhanced Living (formerly Martin’s Run), and White Horse Village. They are all in the greater Philadelphia area.

I went through a similar exercise back in 2021—that post is here.

So what can be learned from the data? The main information is the partisan lean of each community and the age profile of the residents.

Note that residents who aren’t registered to vote are not included in this data. But based on what I have been able to learn about total resident counts at each community, the voter data covers at least 95% of all the residents.

Shifts in party registration. The CAC member communities represent a wide spectrum of politics. The following chart shows that voter registration ranges from 85% Democratic (Cathedral Village) to 51% Republican (Freedom Village). Kendal and Crosslands are (as residents will have guessed) among the most Democratic.

Party registration among the 14 CCRCs in our Area Council. Data source: PA Department of State.

Registration is increasingly Democratic in CAC. If you go back to my 2021 analysis (link above) and compare it with the 2025 data, you will see that the registration percentages have shifted toward the Democrats by about 4% over the last four years, on average. The biggest move was at Beaumont (8% more Democratic this time). Wesley Enhanced Living barely changed (1% more Democratic.)

Here at Kendal, we went from 77% Democratic in 2021 to 84% Democratic in 2025, a 7% shift. That was, in part, because new move-ins were more Democratic (86%) than those who died (78% Democratic). But another important factor was that six Kendal residents switched parties, from Republican to Democratic, and none switched the other way.

How average ages have shifted. In contrast to the voter registration data, the average age of residents is much more variable from year to year, depending both on the age of incoming residents and the age of those who die. An additional factor is the time lag in getting deceased residents off the voter rolls. These factors all increase the variability in average age.

As the following chart shows, the average age for our CAC communities ranges from 83.9 (Cathedral Village) to 87.2 (Waverly Heights). The average across all communities is 85.5.

Average age among the 14 CCRCs in our Area Council. Data source: PA Department of State.

The average ages, and the rankings in this list, have changed a lot since 2021. Back then, Beaumont had the youngest average, but now it’s in the middle of the pack in 2025. In 2021, the Quadrangle was the oldest of all, but now it is among the younger ones.

These major shifts in average age are often the result of construction projects. New construction brings in a wave of new, younger residents. As they age, that cohort of residents shifts the average toward the older end. And when they die, the average reverts to a more typical value.

That effect might explain why Crosslands, which opened its Mott Cottages and Woolman apartment building a couple of years ago, is now among the younger communities. In 2025, its average age is now 84.9 years. In 2021, its average was 85.2. That might not seem like a huge shift, but spread across Crosslands’ roughly 400 residents, it is significant.