New Braunfels is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 36,884 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, New Braunfels is the 63rd largest community in Texas.

New Braunfels is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Braunfels is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Braunfels who work in sales jobs (14.54%), office and administrative support jobs (13.03%), and teaching (8.16%).

One notable thing about New Braunfels is that if you need to go anywhere, you're going to have to drive. This is because New Braunfels is primarily built for cars, and if you drive around you will notice that there are lots of shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets. Commuting to work is done by car: 96.9% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. Sidewalks? Not so much. In fact, trying to walk in certain parts of town may be a dangerous enterprise.

Even though New Braunfels is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

New Braunfels Information and Demographics

The overall education level of New Braunfels citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 24.64% of adults in New Braunfels have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in New Braunfels in 2000 was $18,548, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,192 for a family of four.

New Braunfels is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Braunfels home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New Braunfels is White, followed by African-American. New Braunfels also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.56% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in New Braunfels include German, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in New Braunfels is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German.