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Jaffrey, NH

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Overview


Jaffrey is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,476 people and just one neighborhood, Jaffrey is the 70th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Jaffrey, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.01% of Jaffrey’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jaffrey is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jaffrey who work in sales jobs (19.24%), management occupations (13.13%), and office and administrative support (5.37%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Jaffrey doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Jaffrey citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.19% of adults in Jaffrey have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Jaffrey in 2018 was $42,200, 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 $168,800 for a family of four.

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

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

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.1% have Finnish 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 Jaffrey 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, 3.7% 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 69.0% 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, 31.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.3%), and 11.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.1%).

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 Jaffrey, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.9%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (9.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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