Pittsburg - Stewartstown is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 1,939 people and just one neighborhood, Pittsburg - Stewartstown is the 156th largest community in New Hampshire.
Pittsburg - Stewartstown is a blue-collar town, with 40.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pittsburg - Stewartstown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pittsburg - Stewartstown who work in sales jobs (10.10%), office and administrative support (8.23%), and management occupations (7.71%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.47% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Another notable thing is that Pittsburg - Stewartstown is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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!) Pittsburg - Stewartstown 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. Pittsburg - Stewartstown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pittsburg - Stewartstown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pittsburg - Stewartstown may be for you.
Pittsburg - Stewartstown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Pittsburg - Stewartstown with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.82% of adults in Pittsburg - Stewartstown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pittsburg - Stewartstown in 2022 was $32,196, which is low income relative to New Hampshire, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,784 for a family of four. However, Pittsburg - Stewartstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pittsburg - Stewartstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pittsburg - Stewartstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pittsburg - Stewartstown include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Pittsburg - Stewartstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 66.4%, which is higher than 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.3% of America. 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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.2%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.4% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pittsburg - Stewartstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pittsburg - Stewartstown, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (7.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (63.7%) 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 (18.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.