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Center Harbor - New Hampton, NH

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Overview


Center Harbor - New Hampton is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 3,470 people and just one neighborhood, Center Harbor - New Hampton is the 120th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

Center Harbor - New Hampton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Center Harbor - New Hampton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Center Harbor - New Hampton who work in office and administrative support (12.91%), management occupations (8.83%), and food service (8.77%).

Also of interest is that Center Harbor - New Hampton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Center Harbor - New Hampton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Center Harbor - New Hampton a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Center Harbor - New Hampton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Center Harbor - New Hampton’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Center Harbor - New Hampton is worth considering.

In Center Harbor - New Hampton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.23 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Center Harbor - New Hampton are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.03% of adults in Center Harbor - New Hampton have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Center Harbor - New Hampton in 2022 was $41,020, which is lower middle income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,080 for a family of four. However, Center Harbor - New Hampton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Center Harbor - New Hampton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Center Harbor - New Hampton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Center Harbor - New Hampton include English, Irish, Italian, German, and French.

The most common language spoken in Center Harbor - New Hampton is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.4% have French Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Center Harbor - New Hampton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 76.4% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Center Harbor - New Hampton, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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