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A town of 5,929. Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Newbury Township is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, 31st among Indiana's 585 graded towns. Its schools rank ahead of 92% of Indiana towns, the median household earns $89K, and a typical home costs about $325K, 3.8 years of the county’s $84K median household income. The exception is health: CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 81% of the country. On hazard risk, just 85 of Indiana’s 1,098 towns do better. Newbury Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 86% of U.S. towns. Among 593 Indiana towns, just 1 have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Newbury Township.
Where Newbury Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Shipshewana-Scott Elementary Sch | K–4 | 349 |
| Meadowview Elementary School | PK–5 | 332 |
| Townline Square School Amish | 1–8 | 34 |
Where Newbury Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Newbury Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,430 in 1920, 5,792 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 1908 and 2 maps from 1961 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Newbury Township, and how to reach them.
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Ordered by what stands out in Newbury Township.
Newbury Township pairs an A for schools with modest home prices and draws workers from Clay Township and beyond, but it has little public open land.
3,835 jobs are based in Newbury Township, 1.8 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,809 in 2013 to 3,835.
About one in 4 of Newbury Township’s working residents works in town. At 20 minutes, Newbury Township’s average trip to work is where Indiana’s towns sit at 24 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. 4.2% of residents live below the poverty line in Newbury Township.
| Newbury Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 28% | 11% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its A for schools comes with an A− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $325K.
Its public schools are run by Westview School Corporation. Two of its 5 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipshewana-Scott Elementary SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 349 | B+ |
| Meadowview Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 332 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 86% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
39% of adults feel lonely in Newbury Township, above both the Indiana town median (32%) and the median of U.S. towns (33%). 22% of Newbury Township adults report frequent mental distress. Newbury Township beats the Indiana average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 16.
| Newbury Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 32% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 17% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Newbury Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 11.2% | 13% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 23.4% | 15.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Newbury Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 17° and about 45 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Just 0 of its 22,767 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Newbury Township itself; its outdoors grade is D.
1.6 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. North Park | — | 2 |
| 2. Shipshewana Lake Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Newbury Township
About 1 of every 100 Newbury Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
5,219 counted in 2010 and 5,792 in 2020; an estimated 5,929 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Township in Indiana, United States
Newbury Township is one of 11 townships in LaGrange County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,792, up from 5,219 at the previous census. According to the 2020 "ACS 5-Year Estimates Data Profiles", 36.5% of the township's population spoke only English, while 63.4% spoke an "other [than Spanish] Indo-European language" (basically Pennsylvania German/German).
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4 towns share a border with Newbury Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newbury Township | #31 | A+ | A− | — | A | C− |
| Clay Township | #30 | A+ | A | — | A− | C− |
| Van Buren Township | #94 | A | B+ | — | A | C− |
| Middlebury Township | #353 | B− | C | — | B+ | C |
| Eden Township | #150 | A− | B | — | A | C− |
Newbury Township, Clay Township, Van Buren Township, Middlebury Township and Eden Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Newbury Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Newbury Township grades A+ overall, better than 95% of U.S. towns and #31 of 585 in Indiana. It grades C− for health and A for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a C−.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.