New Lisbon’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city 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 Lisbon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Lisbon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, New Lisbon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
