New Milford is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 802 people and just one neighborhood, New Milford is the 884th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in New Milford was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, New Milford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in New Milford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Milford is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Milford who work in office and administrative support (14.15%), food service (13.21%), and sales jobs (10.06%).
The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, New Milford has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Milford a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small borough, New Milford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in New Milford with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.02% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Milford in 2022 was $37,649, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,596 for a family of four. However, New Milford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Milford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Milford residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Milford include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in New Milford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Milford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in New Milford, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report German roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.