Laconia is a medium-sized city located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 17,310 people and four associated neighborhoods, Laconia is the 15th largest community in New Hampshire.Laconia is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Laconia is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laconia who work in management occupations (13.93%), sales jobs (11.26%), and office and administrative support (10.32%). Also of interest is that Laconia 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: 13.51% 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. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.94 minutes getting to work every day.In terms of college education, Laconia is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.20% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Laconia in 2022 was $46,872, 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 $187,488 for a family of four. However, Laconia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Laconia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laconia residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Laconia include Irish, English, French, French Canadian, and German. The most common language spoken in Laconia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
