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Antrim, NH

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Overview


Antrim is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 2,682 people and just one neighborhood, Antrim is the 140th largest community in New Hampshire. Antrim has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Antrim isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Antrim are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Antrim is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Antrim who work in office and administrative support (12.67%), management occupations (10.58%), and sales jobs (6.56%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.43% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Because of many things, Antrim is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Antrim a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Antrim has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Antrim’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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

One downside of living in Antrim, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.62 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Antrim does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Antrim citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.83% of adults in Antrim have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Antrim in 2022 was $43,364, 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 $173,456 for a family of four. However, Antrim contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.6% have Lithuanian 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 Antrim are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 35.9% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 17.0% 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 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).

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 Antrim, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.2%), and residents who report French roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (28.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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