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.
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%).
Overall, New Washington’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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 Washington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Washington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In New Washington, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.46 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, New Washington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In New Washington, just 11.66% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
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.
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 Washington, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 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.
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, 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).
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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.