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New Washington, IN

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Overview


New Washington is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 595 people and just one neighborhood, New Washington is the 387th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Washington is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Washington is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Washington who work in office and administrative support (23.20%), management occupations (11.20%), and food service (8.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) New Washington has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. New Washington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Washington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Washington may be for you.

One downside of living in New Washington, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.46 minutes every day commuting to work.

New Washington is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in New Washington with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.66% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Washington in 2022 was $31,305, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,220 for a family of four. However, New Washington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Washington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Washington residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Washington include Italian, English, German, European, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in New Washington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Washington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.3%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

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 Washington, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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