City · Newaygo County, Michigan

Newaygo, Michigan

Newaygo is a city in Newaygo County, Michigan. It has 2,512 residents. Newaygo, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,710 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #355 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), homicide rate (low) and natural hazard risk (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), flu vaccinations (low) and median household income (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,710 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #355 of 444 in MI
Population: 2,512 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 667.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 2657080

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety60#6,309/15,637
Economy13#13,546/15,631
Housing31#10,277/14,977
Health37#9,807/15,609
Healthcare36#10,066/15,650
Environment57#6,649/15,453
Education6#14,688/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,180/15,650
Community82#2,863/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,780/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Newaygo, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Newaygo County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Michigan 3.1United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNewaygo County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Michigan 4.7 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataNewaygo County value
Natural hazard risk · low7.4
88/100Michigan 10.32025Federal Emergency Management AgencyNewaygo County value
Voter turnout · high74.9%
85/100Michigan 74.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionNewaygo County value
Hot days · low6 days
82/100Michigan 5 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationNewaygo County value
Drug overdose deaths · low10.0 /100k
81/100Michigan 16.2 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataNewaygo County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
2/100Michigan 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsNewaygo County value
Flu vaccinations · low27.0%
4/100Michigan 43.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNewaygo County value
Median household income · low$40,689
6/100Michigan $72,336United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Pharmacies · low0.8 /10k
7/100Michigan 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsNewaygo County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low10.5%
8/100Michigan 32.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Math scores · low2.58
8/100Michigan 2.85United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNewaygo County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
2,063 (2015-2019) → 2,512 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
33.0% (2015-2019) → 60.2% (2020-2024)
+27 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
29.4% (2015-2019) → 16.6% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
6.4 /1k (2021) → 2.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−56%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+55%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.0% (2015-2019) → 87.9% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Newaygo, Michigan improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+9.8 points78.0% → 87.9%

Declined3

Rent burden+27 points33.0% → 60.2%
Rent / income+8.6 points24.0% → 32.6%
Price / income+1.0×1.8× → 2.8×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Newaygo, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.2 min2015-2019	27.5 min2020-2024	+3.3 min	Within the margin of error	17%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.8%2015-2019	10.5%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Broadband subscriptions	78.0%2015-2019	87.9%2020-2024	+9.8 points	Improved	59%
Child poverty rate	29.4%2015-2019	16.6%2020-2024	−13 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Effective property tax rate	1.63%2015-2019	1.29%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
High school diploma or higher	92.7%2015-2019	85.8%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+1.0×	Declined	22%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5012015-2019	0.4742020-2024	−0.027	Within the margin of error	72%
Median household income	$43,2502015-2019	$40,6892020-2024	−5.9%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	18.0%2015-2019	19.9%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.0%2015-2019	32.6%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Declined	12%
Rent-burdened households	33.0%2015-2019	60.2%2020-2024	+27 points	Declined	4%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.9%2015-2019	3.8%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Within the margin of error	77%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Newaygo, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Newaygo, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Newaygo, Michigan itself moved −23 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,512 residents (±35)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

981 households (±104)

Newaygo, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k33%†319
$25k–50k27%†262
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

981 households (±104)

Newaygo, Michigan
Michigan share

Own58%572
Rent42%409

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+13.0 points).

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

911 workers (±121)

Newaygo, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone84%766
Carpool7.0%†64
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Newaygo County, the county holding most of Newaygo's residents.

Newaygo County has 829 employer establishments, 162 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Michigan's), with 11,124 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,757. The Census Bureau also counts 3,227 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 829; 3,227 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 162; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 11,124
Average annual pay: $50,757; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Newaygo County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	69	13.5	0.87×About typical	324	$63,105	415
Ambulatory health care services	56	11	0.53×Fewer than typical	730	$51,086	77
Restaurants and other eating places	54	10.6	0.58×Fewer than typical	723	$21,084	8
Religious organizations	53	10.4	1.87×More than typical	199	$20,513	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	27	5.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	308	$39,133	247
Automotive repair and maintenance	25	4.9	0.97×About typical	89	$53,472	43
Construction of buildings	25	4.9	0.65×Fewer than typical	64	$53,656	237
Gasoline stations	25	4.9	1.51×More than typical	239	$30,243	—
Full-service restaurants	23	4.5	0.59×Fewer than typical	312	$22,115	4
Limited-service restaurants	23	4.5	0.56×Fewer than typical	381	$20,391	—
Offices of other health practitioners	23	4.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	138	$44,094	30
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	22	4.3	1.37×More than typical	95	$76,042	84

Rank places for an industry Open Newaygo County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 51,124 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Newaygo, Michigan: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2.1KFY2017
738.9FY2018
205.8FY2019
698.3FY2022
1.2KFY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Newaygo, Michigan, so they do not add up across cities.

Newaygo, Michigan's figures are part of those of Newaygo County, MI ($6,224 in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Newaygo is mostly in Newaygo County.

See federal money in Newaygo County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Newaygo, Michigan is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

John R. MoolenaarR-MI-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Newaygo County41100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Newaygo County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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