It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) New Market has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. New Market has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Market than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Market may be for you.
One downside of living in New Market is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Market, the average commute to work is 31.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, New Market does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, New Market is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.96% of adults 25 and older in New Market have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Market in 2022 was $39,640, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,560 for a family of four. However, New Market contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Market is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Market home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Market residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Market include English, Italian, Irish, Swedish, and German.
The most common language spoken in New Market is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
