New Paris is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,481 people and just one neighborhood, New Paris is the 514th largest community in Ohio.
When you are in New Paris, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.92% of New Paris’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Paris is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Paris who work in office and administrative support (15.04%), healthcare suport services (7.69%), and sales jobs (6.50%).
Being a small village, New Paris does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In New Paris, just 9.81% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Paris in 2022 was $24,673, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,692 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.
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.
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, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss 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 New Paris are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.3% 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, 36.2% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 14.1% 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 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.7%).
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 Paris, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.1%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.