Overview Newark is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,233 people and just one neighborhood, Newark is the 806th largest community in Texas. Occupations and Workforce Newark is a blue-collar town, with 35.37% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Newark is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Newark who work in management occupations (10.71%), sales jobs (6.88%), and food service (6.69%). A relatively large number of people in Newark telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Setting & Lifestyle It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Newark 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. Newark has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Newark than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Newark may be for you. One downside of living in Newark is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Newark, the average commute to work is 33.96 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Newark does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work. Newark Demographics The percentage of adults in Newark with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.57% of adults in Newark have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Newark in 2022 was $30,968, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,872 for a family of four. However, Newark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Newark is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Newark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newark residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Newark also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.38% of the city鈥檚 residents. Important ancestries of people in Newark include German, Irish, English, European, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Newark is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.