Barnstead is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,022 people and just one neighborhood, Barnstead is the 77th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns, Barnstead isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Barnstead are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Barnstead is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnstead who work in management occupations (10.67%), teaching (9.89%), and office and administrative support (9.22%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.48% 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.
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!) Barnstead 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. Barnstead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Barnstead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Barnstead may be for you.
In Barnstead, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.79 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The overall education level of Barnstead is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.07% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Barnstead in 2022 was $40,029, 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 $160,116 for a family of four. However, Barnstead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Barnstead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barnstead residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Barnstead include Irish, Italian, English, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Barnstead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
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, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 11.2% have French ancestry.
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 Barnstead are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.0% 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, 36.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.8%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
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 Barnstead, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (11.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.