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Salisbury - Andover, NH

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Overview


Salisbury - Andover is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 3,914 people and just one neighborhood, Salisbury - Andover is the 113th largest community in New Hampshire.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Salisbury - Andover is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Salisbury - Andover is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salisbury - Andover who work in office and administrative support (14.52%), management occupations (11.08%), and sales jobs (9.12%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.49% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

In addition, Salisbury - Andover is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Salisbury - Andover is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Salisbury - Andover 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, Salisbury - Andover has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Salisbury - Andover’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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, Salisbury - Andover has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Salisbury - Andover a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Salisbury - Andover, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Salisbury - Andover 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: 35.00% of adults in Salisbury - Andover have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Salisbury - Andover in 2018 was $42,999, 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 $171,996 for a family of four. However, Salisbury - Andover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Salisbury - Andover is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Salisbury - Andover, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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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.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 9.6% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 25.8% have Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Salisbury - Andover are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.1% 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 67.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.0% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.9%).

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 Salisbury - Andover, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (23.0%), and residents who report French roots (17.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (9.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (67.9%) 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 (14.5%) . 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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