Lyndeborough is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 1,703 people and just one neighborhood, Lyndeborough is the 160th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lyndeborough is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lyndeborough is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyndeborough who work in management occupations (13.77%), sales jobs (9.54%), and office and administrative support (8.33%).
Also of interest is that Lyndeborough 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: 14.37% 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.
Because of many things, Lyndeborough is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Lyndeborough really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lyndeborough perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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!) Lyndeborough 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. Lyndeborough has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lyndeborough than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lyndeborough may be for you.
One downside of living in Lyndeborough, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.57 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Lyndeborough does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Lyndeborough is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.41% of adults in Lyndeborough have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lyndeborough in 2022 was $52,334, which is upper middle income relative to New Hampshire, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $209,336 for a family of four. However, Lyndeborough contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lyndeborough home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lyndeborough residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lyndeborough include Irish, English, French, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Lyndeborough is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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.
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.
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, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.6% have French ancestry.
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 Lyndeborough are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.0% 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 48.7% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Lyndeborough, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (24.0%), and residents who report French roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.