Loudon is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,706 people and just one neighborhood, Loudon is the 67th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Loudon is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loudon is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loudon who work in office and administrative support (11.54%), sales jobs (9.98%), and management occupations (8.56%).
A relatively large number of people in Loudon telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.77% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) Loudon 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. Loudon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Loudon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Loudon may be for you.
One downside of living in Loudon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.32 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Loudon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Loudon citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.62% of adults in Loudon have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Loudon in 2022 was $38,059, 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 $152,236 for a family of four. However, Loudon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Loudon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loudon residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Loudon include English, Irish, French, French Canadian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Loudon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
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.
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, 9.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.9% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.3% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Loudon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% of U.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, 33.5% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Greek and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Loudon, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report French roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (9.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.