Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The best of New Market’s subject grades are an A− for walkability and history and an A for the outdoors; the weakest is a C− for incomes. New Market’s concentration of trails is 3.1 miles per square mile, against 0.7 in Virginia’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Only 29 of Virginia’s 372 towns score higher on the outdoors. New Market has 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them New Market Battlefield Park and New Market Historic District. New Market has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where New Market beats most towns.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far New Market is from typical.
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Census counts: 747 in 1860, 2,155 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1859 and 5 maps from 1942 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around New Market. Close and well known come first.
9 mi National ParkShenandoah National Park1.7M visitors a year
10 mi CaveLuray Caverns13 mi Scenic driveSkyline Drive
20 mi National forestGeorge Washington and Jefferson National Forests39 mi CaveHellhole32 mi Zoo & aquariumSmithsonian Conservation Biology InstituteShenandoah National Park: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Luray Caverns: Paulo Ordoveza from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0 · Skyline Drive: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: Aneta Kaluzna, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in New Market, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in New Market.
New Market: just over two in five adults have high blood pressure, where Virginia’s towns sit at 33% and U.S. towns at 35%. CDC measures, 32 in all: New Market beats Virginia on 1 and trails on 13. Also worth knowing: for adults locally, the share who have diabetes is 15%.
| New Market | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 12% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 33% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 16% |
| What stands out | New Market | VA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 81.4% | 76.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.6% | 6.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest park or preserve is New Market Community Park, at 26 acres. 6.1 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. Parks and preserves locally: 2, covering 35 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. New Market Community Park | — | 26 |
| 2. Rebel Park | — | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expect July afternoons of 87° and January nights of 24°, with about 21 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In New Market, the midpoint rent is $919 a month. Typical home values rose 2.6% in the year to September 2026. Among households locally, 43% live in a home they own.
| New Market | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 43% | 68% | 73% |
| Median rent | $919 a month | $1,762 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in New Market dropped by 92, to 728. In New Market, 11% of residents live below the poverty line. Its typical household income is $51,000. The top destinations are Mount Jackson (8%), Woodstock (7%) and Winchester (4%).
| New Market | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $51,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 8.8% | 4.9% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. New Market's reported crime rate is below Virginia's. The violent offense rate for New Market comes to 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
| New Market | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.9 per 1,000 residents | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 10.8 per 1,000 residents | 14.6 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
67% of New Market’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 12%. Compared with 53% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in the town is higher. Federal disaster aid has reached households in New Market after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2012.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
None within 15 miles of New Market; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 New Market residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
3 places in New Market on the National Register of Historic Places.
5 notable people were born in New Market.
Town in Virginia, United States
New Market is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Founded as a small crossroads trading town in the Shenandoah Valley, it has a population of 2,155 as of the most recent 2020 U.S. census. The north–south U.S. 11 and the east–west U.S. 211 pass near it and cross Massanutten Mountain at the town's titular gap. It is home to the New Market Shockers of the Rockingham County Baseball League, the New Market Rebels of the Valley Baseball League, the Schultz Theatre and School of Performing Arts, and the Shenvalee Golf Course. The town is known for having been the site on May 15, 1864 of one of the last major Confederate victories in the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil…
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That is 5 years of the area's median household income ($67,191 across the county). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
New Market has 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places. 5 notable people were born here, including Arthur S. Link and Buddy Charleton.
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