New Site is located in north-central Tallapoosa County in east-central Alabama. It has a mayor/council form of government.
History

Demographics
According to 2016 Census estimates, New Site recorded a population of 790. Of that number, 89.4 percent of respondents identified themselves as white, 10.0 percent as African American, 0.6 percent as two or more races, and 0.5 percent as Hispanic. The town's median household income was $48,958, and the per capita income was $23,254.
Employment
According to 2016 Census estimates, the workforce in New Site was divided among the following industrial categories:
- Educational services and health care and social assistance (24.8 percent)
- Manufacturing (19.9 percent)
- Professional, scientific, and management, and administrative and waste management services (10.3 percent)
- Retail trade (9.1 percent)
- Construction (6.3 percent)
- Transportation and warehousing, and utilities (5.7 percent)
- Public administration (5.4 percent)
- Other services, except public administration (5.1 percent)
- Finance and insurance, and real estate and rental and leasing (4.8 percent)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extraction (4.0 percent)
- Information (1.7 percent)
- Wholesale trade (0.9 percent)
Education
Public education in New Site is overseen by the Tallapoosa County Board of Education which administers a K-12 school.
Transportation
New Site is accessed by State Highway 22, which runs east-west, and State Highway 49, which runs north-south.
Events and Places of Interest

Additional Resources
Tallapoosa County Bicentennial Committee. Tallapoosa County: A History. Alexander City, Ala.: Service Printing Company, 1976.