Swanzey is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 7,428 people and two associated neighborhoods, Swanzey is the 44th largest community in New Hampshire.Swanzey is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Swanzey is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Swanzey who work in sales jobs (12.74%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and management occupations (10.22%). 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, Swanzey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Swanzey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Swanzey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Swanzey is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.22% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Swanzey in 2022 was $39,512, which is low income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,048 for a family of four. However, Swanzey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Swanzey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Swanzey residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Swanzey include French, English, Irish, Italian, and German. The most common language spoken in Swanzey is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Tagalog.
