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Barnstead, NH

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Overview


Barnstead is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,004 people and just one neighborhood, Barnstead is the 77th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Barnstead isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Barnstead are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Barnstead is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnstead who work in management occupations (10.67%), teaching (9.89%), and office and administrative support (9.22%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.48% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Barnstead has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Barnstead a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Barnstead, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.79 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Barnstead who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.07% of adults in Barnstead have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Barnstead in 2018 was $40,029, 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 $160,116 for a family of four. However, Barnstead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Barnstead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barnstead residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Barnstead include Irish, Italian, English, French, and German.

The most common language spoken in Barnstead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

Diversity

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 11.2% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Barnstead are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 36.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.8%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% 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 Barnstead, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (11.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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