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Grafton - Alexandria, NH

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Overview


Grafton - Alexandria is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 3,461 people and just one neighborhood, Grafton - Alexandria is the 118th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

Grafton - Alexandria is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grafton - Alexandria is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grafton - Alexandria who work in office and administrative support (11.40%), management occupations (11.33%), and sales jobs (8.59%).

A relatively large number of people in Grafton - Alexandria telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.82% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Overall, Grafton - Alexandria’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Grafton - Alexandria 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. Grafton - Alexandria has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Grafton - Alexandria than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Grafton - Alexandria may be for you.

One downside of living in Grafton - Alexandria, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.54 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Grafton - Alexandria is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.31% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Grafton - Alexandria in 2022 was $43,515, 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 $174,060 for a family of four. However, Grafton - Alexandria contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Grafton - Alexandria is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

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.

Real Estate

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 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 3.0% have Canadian 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 Grafton - Alexandria are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 19.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% 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 Grafton - Alexandria, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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