NewtonWI
A town of 2,117, settled in 1930.
Is Newton a good place to live?
Newton’s best subject grade is an A for incomes; its weakest is a C− for schools. Newton’s median age is 51 years, above both Wisconsin’s towns (42.1 years) and U.S. towns (40.5 years). On the outdoors, just 62 of Wisconsin’s 879 towns do worse. Newton has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Newton stand out
Where Newton beats most towns.
How Newton grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Newton is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Newton: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Newton, and how to reach them.
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 Newton.
Very low risk in Newton, with inland flooding at the top
Households in Newton have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2008. Compared with 89% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in the town is lower. FEMA puts 48% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 17% to cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Johns Lutheran School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 91 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within WI on state tests and graduation
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Newton
Expect July afternoons of 78° and January nights of 13°, with about 35 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
About one in three of Newton’s working residents commute to Manitowoc
Newton had 1,006 jobs in 2023, down 83 from 2013. Most working residents leave Newton for work: only 6% work in town. For residents in the town, the share who live below the poverty line is 1.7%. Its mean commuting time is 19 minutes, below both the Wisconsin town median (22 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Newton | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 1.7% | 6.4% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 10% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.2% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Newton trails 54% of U.S. towns
39% of adults have obesity in Newton. The share of adults in Newton who get no exercise outside work: 30%.
| Newton | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 26% | 25% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 20% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 38% | 35% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Newton | WI |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 7.7% | 6.5% |
| More adults with heart disease | 7.5% | 6.6% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 8.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A home in Newton is worth about $351K, on Zillow’s estimate
Newton: 97% of households live in a home they own. In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 8.3%. Its rent at the middle of the market is $1,083 a month.
| Newton | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 97% | 74% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,083 a month | $1,078 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lambeau Field and 16 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Newton. Close and well known come first.
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaLambeau Field
33 mi LakeLake Winnebago
6 mi MuseumUSS Cobia
36 mi Stadium & arenaResch Center
35 mi MuseumNational Railroad Museum
24 mi Ancient siteRouse SimmonsPhoto credits
Lambeau Field: JL1Row, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Winnebago: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · USS Cobia: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Resch Center: User Royalbroil on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 · National Railroad Museum: Dual Freq, CC BY 3.0 · Rouse Simmons: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
Everything we know about Newton
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Newton
About 4 of every 100 Newton residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
About Newton
Town in Wisconsin, United States
Newton is a town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,122 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 745 ft
- ZIP code
- 53063
- Area code
- 920
Newton’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Newton.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton | — | — | C+ | — | C− | B− |
| Manitowoc | #261 | B− | A− | B− | C− | C+ |
| Centerville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liberty | — | — | B− | — | B | B− |
| Manitowoc | — | — | B− | — | C− | C+ |
| Manitowoc Rapids | — | — | C+ | — | C− | C+ |
Newton, Liberty, Manitowoc and Manitowoc Rapids have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Newton, Liberty, Manitowoc and Manitowoc Rapids report no FBI crime data of their own. Centerville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Newton with a neighbor →
Questions about Newton
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Newton, WI expensive?
That is 5.1 years of the area's median household income ($69,148 across the Manitowoc, WI area).