Francestown - Bennington is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,068 people and just one neighborhood, Francestown - Bennington is the 75th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Francestown - Bennington is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Francestown - Bennington is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Francestown - Bennington who work in management occupations (13.63%), sales jobs (8.37%), and office and administrative support (6.95%).
A relatively large number of people in Francestown - Bennington telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.62% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Because of many things, Francestown - Bennington is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Francestown - Bennington really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Francestown - Bennington perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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!) Francestown - Bennington 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. Francestown - Bennington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Francestown - Bennington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Francestown - Bennington may be for you.
In Francestown - Bennington, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.28 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The education level of Francestown - Bennington citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.97% of adults in Francestown - Bennington have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Francestown - Bennington in 2022 was $48,582, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $194,328 for a family of four. However, Francestown - Bennington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Francestown - Bennington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Francestown - Bennington residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Francestown - Bennington include English, Irish, French, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Francestown - Bennington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 10.9% have French ancestry.
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 Francestown - Bennington are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.1% 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, 39.3% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.6%).
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 Francestown - Bennington, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report French roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.8%) 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.