About New Market

New Market is a tiny town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 455 people and just one neighborhood, New Market is the 298th largest community in Maryland.

New Market is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Market is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Market who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.93%), sales jobs (14.96%), and management occupations (7.09%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.38% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, New Market is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Market 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 Market has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Market's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

In New Market, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

New Market Information and Demographics

The education level of New Market citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 33.92% of adults in New Market have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Market in 2000 was $22,102, which is middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,408 for a family of four. However, New Market contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Market home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New Market is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Market include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scotch-Irish, Swedish, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in New Market is English. Some people also speak German.