New Salisbury is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 550 people and just one neighborhood, New Salisbury is the 401st largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Salisbury is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.34% of the New Salisbury workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Salisbury is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Salisbury who work in office and administrative support (19.84%), maintenance occupations (14.98%), and management occupations (6.07%).
Also of interest is that New Salisbury has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, New Salisbury is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, New Salisbury really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is New Salisbury perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly 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, New Salisbury has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Salisbury a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in New Salisbury is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Salisbury, the average commute to work is 37.65 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
New Salisbury 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, New Salisbury is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.41% of adults 25 and older in New Salisbury have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Salisbury in 2022 was $32,485, 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 $129,940 for a family of four. However, New Salisbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. New Salisbury also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.69% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call New Salisbury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Salisbury residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Salisbury include Irish, German, French, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in New Salisbury is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Salisbury are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 60.3% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 15.0% 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 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.0%).
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 Salisbury, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report English roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.