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New Town, ND

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Overview


New Town is a very small city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,725 people and just one neighborhood, New Town is the 27th largest community in North Dakota. Much of the housing stock in New Town was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local New Town economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in New Town, where the median household income is $50,707.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Town is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Town is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Town who work in office and administrative support (13.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.28%), and sales jobs (10.01%).

Also of interest is that New Town has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

New Town’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.04 minutes getting to work every day.

As is often the case in a small city, New Town doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of New Town citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.20% of adults in New Town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in New Town in 2022 was $22,821, which is low income relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,284 for a family of four. However, New Town contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Town is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Town home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Town residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. New Town also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in New Town include German, Norwegian, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in New Town is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in New Town, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.7% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (62.4%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.1% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 58.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 7.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Town are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 35.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.0%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in New Town, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (58.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.1%) and 7.9% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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