New Lisbon’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) New Lisbon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. New Lisbon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Lisbon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Lisbon may be for you.
Being a small city, New Lisbon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In New Lisbon, just 12.27% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Lisbon in 2018 was $24,855, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,420 for a family of four. However, New Lisbon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Lisbon is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Lisbon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Lisbon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Lisbon include German, English, Norwegian, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in New Lisbon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
