Newtown is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 218 people and just one neighborhood, Newtown is the 460th largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Newtown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 54.05% of the Newtown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Newtown is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newtown who work in healthcare suport services (9.01%), sales jobs (8.11%), and office and administrative support (7.21%).
Newtown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Newtown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newtown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Newtown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.36 minutes every day commuting to work.
Newtown 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Newtown rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.34% of adults 25 and older in Newtown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Newtown in 2022 was $29,748, which is middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,992 for a family of four. However, Newtown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newtown residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Newtown include Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Newtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Newtown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 25 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry.
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 Newtown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.4% of U.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, 39.6% 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 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households.
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 Newtown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 (37.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (13.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.