New Berlin is a medium-sized city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 38,362 people and six constituent neighborhoods, New Berlin is the 18th largest community in Wisconsin.

New Berlin is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Berlin is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Berlin who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.47%), sales jobs (12.89%), and management occupations (12.54%).

Also of interest is that New Berlin has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, New Berlin is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

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

One notable thing about New Berlin is that if you need to go anywhere, you're going to have to drive. This is because New Berlin 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: 98.4% 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.

New Berlin Information and Demographics

The education level of New Berlin citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 36.76% of adults in New Berlin have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Berlin in 2000 was $29,789, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,156 for a family of four. However, New Berlin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in New Berlin is English.