New Paris is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,478 people and just one neighborhood, New Paris is the 514th largest community in Ohio. New Paris has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, New Paris isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in New Paris are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Paris is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Paris who work in office and administrative support (16.43%), sales jobs (6.14%), and healthcare suport services (5.96%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.11% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Being a small village, New Paris does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in New Paris is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.38% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Paris in 2022 was $24,899, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,596 for a family of four. However, New Paris contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Paris home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Paris residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in New Paris include German, English, Irish, French, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in New Paris is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Paris are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.3% 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, 33.8% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.9%), and 16.5% 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 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.7%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in New Paris, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.