New ParisIN
Home to 1,549 people, the town was settled in 1852.
Is New Paris a good place to live?
The best of New Paris’ subject grades is an A− for schools; the weakest is a C for walkability. On hazard risk, just 71 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do better. New Paris has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes New Paris stand out
Where New Paris beats most towns.
Every workday, about 1,447 people come to New Paris for work
Where New Paris’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How New Paris grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far New Paris is from typical.
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Moving to New Paris: who provides what
New Paris is unincorporated, so Elkhart County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in New Paris.
A job hub: New Paris has 2.1 jobs for every working resident and draws in 1,447 commuters
Half commute less than 10 miles. Employers in New Paris added 688 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,497. Only 7% of working residents stay in New Paris for work; the rest commute out. Also worth knowing: for New Paris, the mean commuting time is 22 minutes.
| New Paris | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 7% | 11% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
New Paris faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
In New Paris, the FEMA hazard score is 12 of 100. 46% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 19%. Federal aid has come to New Paris households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2018.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The climate in New Paris brings snowy winters and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 83° and January nights of 17°, with about 45 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A home in New Paris is worth about $306K, on Zillow’s estimate
New Paris: 81% of households are owner-occupiers, above both Indiana’s towns (76%) and U.S. towns (73%). In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 4.3%. For New Paris, the median rent is $1,061 a month.
| New Paris | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 76% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,061 a month | $947 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
New Paris is less healthy than 62% of U.S. towns
On the CDC’s 32 measures, New Paris is ahead of Indiana on 1 and behind on 1. New Paris: 42% of adults have obesity, above both the Indiana town median (39%) and the median of U.S. towns (35%). For adults in the town, the share who binge drink is 18%.
| New Paris | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| What stands out | New Paris | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 11.2% | 13% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 73.6% | 77.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
New Paris keeps 4.4% of its land conserved
0.1 miles of trail wind through 1 park or preserve. One park or preserve covers 3 acres in New Paris.
| New Paris | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.4% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sunny Side Park | 0.1 mi | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about New Paris
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of New Paris
About 3 of every 100 New Paris residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Questions about New Paris
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is New Paris, IN expensive?
That is 4.5 years of the area's median household income ($68,561 across the Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.