Overall, New Lisbon’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city 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 Lisbon 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 Lisbon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Lisbon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Lisbon may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, New Lisbon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in New Lisbon with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.27% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Lisbon in 2022 was $24,855, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,420 for a family of four. However, New Lisbon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Lisbon is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Lisbon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Lisbon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Lisbon include German, English, Norwegian, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in New Lisbon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
