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.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Palestine is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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 great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Palestine a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, New Palestine has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Palestine's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

New Palestine is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around New Palestine, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.96% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

New Palestine is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

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.