Bath - Lisbon is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 4,979 people and just one neighborhood, Bath - Lisbon is the 78th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bath - Lisbon is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bath - Lisbon is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bath - Lisbon who work in office and administrative support (10.37%), sales jobs (10.06%), and food service (8.75%).
Also of interest is that Bath - Lisbon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Bath - Lisbon 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. Bath - Lisbon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bath - Lisbon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bath - Lisbon may be for you.
The overall education level of Bath - Lisbon citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.78% of adults in Bath - Lisbon have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bath - Lisbon in 2022 was $36,835, which is low income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,340 for a family of four. However, Bath - Lisbon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bath - Lisbon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bath - Lisbon residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bath - Lisbon include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bath - Lisbon is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bath - Lisbon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 28 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 7.9% have Scottish 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 Bath - Lisbon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.1%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% 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 Bath - Lisbon, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report French roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (7.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.