Alstead - Marlow is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 4,296 people and just one neighborhood, Alstead - Marlow is the 102nd largest community in New Hampshire.
Alstead - Marlow is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Alstead - Marlow is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alstead - Marlow who work in office and administrative support (11.49%), sales jobs (10.92%), and management occupations (8.97%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.76% 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.
The overall crime rate in Alstead - Marlow is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Alstead - Marlow 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. Alstead - Marlow has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alstead - Marlow than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alstead - Marlow may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Alstead - Marlow doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Alstead - Marlow is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.23% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Alstead - Marlow in 2022 was $38,609, 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 $154,436 for a family of four. However, Alstead - Marlow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Alstead - Marlow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alstead - Marlow residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alstead - Marlow include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Alstead - Marlow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 43 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.3% have French Canadian 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 Alstead - Marlow are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% 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, 34.3% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Alstead - Marlow, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.2%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (9.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.