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Nashua, NH
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Living in Nashua



Nashua is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 91,161 people and 20 constituent neighborhoods, Nashua is the second largest community in New Hampshire.

Also of interest is that Nashua has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.84% 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.

One thing noticeable about Nashua, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Nashua is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Nashua a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

The citizens of Nashua are among the most well-educated in the nation: 40.02% of adults in Nashua have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Nashua in 2018 was $43,262, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $173,048 for a family of four. However, Nashua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Nashua is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nashua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nashua residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Nashua also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.20% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nashua include Irish, English, French, French Canadian, and Italian.

Nashua also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.74%.

The most common language spoken in Nashua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.