Middleton - New Durham is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 4,607 people and just one neighborhood, Middleton - New Durham is the 91st largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns, Middleton - New Durham isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Middleton - New Durham are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Middleton - New Durham is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Middleton - New Durham who work in management occupations (14.86%), sales jobs (13.70%), and office and administrative support (11.35%).
A relatively large number of people in Middleton - New Durham telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.94% 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.
Another notable thing is that Middleton - New Durham is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
Because of many things, Middleton - New Durham is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Middleton - New Durham 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, Middleton - New Durham has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Middleton - New Durham’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, Middleton - New Durham has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Middleton - New Durham a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Middleton - New Durham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Middleton - New Durham, the average commute to work is 37.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Middleton - New Durham who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.90% of adults in Middleton - New Durham have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Middleton - New Durham in 2022 was $40,676, 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 $162,704 for a family of four. However, Middleton - New Durham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Middleton - New Durham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Middleton - New Durham residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Middleton - New Durham include Irish, English, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Middleton - New Durham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.1%, which is higher than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 9.1% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Middleton - New Durham are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.1% 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, 32.0% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.4%).
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 Middleton - New Durham, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report French roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (12.7%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (9.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.