New Market is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,543 people and three associated neighborhoods, New Market is the 257th largest community in Alabama.
You will also find that a lot of people in New Market work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Also of interest is that New Market has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, New Market has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Market a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in New Market, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.46 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, New Market doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of New Market are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.88% of adults in New Market having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Market in 2022 was $37,308, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,232 for a family of four. However, New Market contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Market is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Market home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Market residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Market include English, Irish, German, Swedish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in New Market is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.