Newport East, Rhode Island

Area Profile

11,069 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Newport East, in Newport County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 43% of 3,904 published cities60
Housing affordability3449th of 4,223 published cities58
Climate2658th of 4,223 published cities66
Physical resilienceTop 1% of 4,182 published cities98
AccessTop 35% of 4,226 published cities95
Economic stability2439th of 4,226 published cities56
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.5 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 25% of it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Newport East in the top 1% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 16 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
11,069
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$89,028
Top 26% nationally
Density
1,924/sq mi
5.8 sq mi of land
Median age
46.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Newport County
Rhode Island
Metro area
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
Nearest major airport
PVD
16 mi · Rhode Island TF Green Intl
Median home value
$485,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 2.6% is lower than 98% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 40,343 employed residents.

42% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 83% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$13,434$89,028Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,736$58,415Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.7%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.9 minBottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher42.3%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment40,343Bottom 45%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.2%Bottom 10%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 8%June 2026
Labor force41,420Bottom 44%June 2026
Labor force participation66.3%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,290Top 47%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$53,680Top 41%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 10%June 2026
Unemployment rate2.6%Bottom 2%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202491k77k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $89,028 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers21,530$33,700
Retail Salespersons20,910$35,230
Home Health and Personal Care Aides15,670$40,890
Registered Nurses15,180$99,880
Cashiers14,440$34,540
General and Operations Managers14,110$110,360

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Newport County, RI, which contains this city.

25% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 40% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
24.7%
Reading proficiency
40.2%
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Middletown High SchoolMiddletown52310.7
Gaudet Middle SchoolMiddletown43111.122%29%
Forest Avenue SchoolMiddletown30412.217%37%
Aquidneck SchoolMiddletown30212.647%62%
Gaudet Learning AcademyMiddletown25912.312%37%

35.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Rhode Island’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,876 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
25.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,876
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$485,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.45Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate51.9%Bottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4125,813Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$169$1,876Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$33,615$485,400Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.3%Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.7%Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 80°F and January a low of 24°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 42.2 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEWPORT STATE AP, 1.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation42.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low24°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high80°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing41°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

98 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, coastal flooding and heat wave.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 82% of measured US cities.

HurricaneElevated
Coastal floodingElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: earthquake, inland flooding, lightning, drought, strong wind, winter weather, ice storm, cold wave, tornado, wildfire, landslide, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Newport County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 4.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.1 per 100,000 residents in Newport County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
4.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Newport County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Newport East rather than Newport East itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 16 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Rhode Island TF Green IntlPVD16 mi8,700 ft
General Edward Lawrence Logan IntlBOS60 mi10,083 ft
Bradley IntlBDL78 mi9,510 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
ProvidenceProvidence County191,76760vs Newport East
New BedfordBristol County100,99850vs Newport East
Fall RiverBristol County94,08253vs Newport East
CranstonProvidence County83,25067vs Newport East
WarwickKent County83,17573vs Newport East
PawtucketProvidence County75,89364vs Newport East
TauntonBristol County60,43363vs Newport East
East ProvidenceProvidence County47,28168vs Newport East
AttleboroBristol County46,76267vs Newport East
WoonsocketProvidence County43,52157vs Newport East
North Attleborough TownBristol County30,98472vs Newport East
NewportNewport County24,87462vs Newport East

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Newport East

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
0284216,832$101,948