New Paris draws 1,447 commuters a day, with 2.1 jobs for every working resident
New Paris has 1,497 jobs for 718 working residents. Jobs and income earn New Paris B; getting around on foot earns it C. 2% of workers work from home (Indiana 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set New Paris apart
New Paris makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in New Paris are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs New Paris residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 49%. The jobs ↓
New Paris is where the jobs are
New Paris has 1,497 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,300 people are in town, 50% more than the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
New Paris and Goshen trade workers both ways
Goshen is the top workplace for New Paris residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in New Paris come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 718 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: New Paris’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, New Paris is better than 55% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds New Paris’ grade up (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: New Paris’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, New Paris could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Making and building: 87% of jobs based in New Paris
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Paris, 2013 → 2023: 809 → 1,497. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Paris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in New Paris by day
On a workday 668 residents head out to work and 50 work right here.
About 2,300 people are in New Paris on a workday afternoon, 50% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The daily trip into New Paris
Where New Paris clocks in
25% of workers
13% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
New Paris’ commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Paris workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 881 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from New Paris
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
New Paris is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Paris is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 895 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of New Paris households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Paris’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, New Paris ranks 1,809th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,807 | Pulaski Township PA | 1,261 | $55K | 7.1% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,808 | Ripon WI | 1,320 | $92K | 13.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,809 | New Paris IN | 1,549 | $75K | 10.5% | 0.0% | 7% | B |
| 1,810 | Midway KY | 1,787 | $62K | 8.2% | 8.8% | 10% | B |
| 1,811 | Coloma MI | 1,415 | $69K | 7.4% | 0.8% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of New Paris, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in New Paris: questions
What is the median household income in New Paris?
$74,663 (±$12,229) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Paris?
10.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Paris?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Paris work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goshen (25%, 5 mi), Elkhart (13%, 15 mi), Jackson Township (5%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Paris walkable?
New Paris is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Paris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Paris, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Paris
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.