About New Palestine

New Palestine is a somewhat small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 9,431 people and just one neighborhood, New Palestine is the 80th largest community in Indiana.

New Palestine is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Palestine is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Palestine who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.10%), management occupations (15.03%), and sales jobs (11.62%).

Because of many things, New Palestine 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 Palestine really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is New Palestine perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

New Palestine is a very car-oriented town. 98.96% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because New Palestine is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. New Palestine has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small town, New Palestine doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

New Palestine Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, New Palestine is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 27.32% of adults in New Palestine have a college degree.

The per capita income in New Palestine in 2000 was $27,967, which is wealthy relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,868 for a family of four. However, New Palestine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Palestine home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New Palestine is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Palestine include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in New Palestine is English.