Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Bath has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Bath C; getting around on foot earns it C. There are 108 jobs in Bath, against 461 working residents. Only 4% stay in Bath for work; outside it, Littleton is the main destination (14%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Bath in brief
Jobs & income in Bath: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Bath is better than 27% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bath’s grade up (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Bath’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bath could be anywhere from D− to B.
How many people are in Bath by day
On a workday 442 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Bath on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Bath ends
Where Bath clocks in
14% of workers
14% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
A place that makes things: 69% of Bath’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bath, 2013 → 2023: 74 → 108. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bath’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Bath: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bath workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 455 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across New Hampshire: 87% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Bath to work
About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Bath walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bath is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bath near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 512 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.2% of Bath households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bath’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bath is 2,235th among 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 387 | Mason NH | 1,460 | $111K | 4.7% | 2.7% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 530 | Center Harbor NH | 1,049 | $104K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 597 | Wilmot NH | 1,471 | $118K | 2.3% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,233 | Granville WV | 1,362 | $32K | 45.8% | 11.0% | 4% | C |
| 2,234 | Green Lake WI | 1,040 | $56K | 11.6% | 4.0% | 13% | C |
| 2,235 | Bath NH | 1,112 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.9% | 4% | C |
| 2,236 | Downe Township NJ | 1,416 | $68K | 12.4% | 6.2% | 4% | C |
| 2,237 | McGill NV | 1,050 | $57K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bath, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Next door is work for 12% of Bath
The biggest share goes to Haverhill (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bath workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath | – | C | C | 26 min | $67,813 |
| Monroe | 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Haverhill | 9% | B− | B− | 33 min | $85,929 |
| Woodsville | under 3% | — | — | 40 min | — |
| Landaff | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Lyman | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Monroe, Landaff and Lyman: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Woodsville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bath’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bath: questions
What is the median household income in Bath?
$67,813 (±$22,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bath?
8.1%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bath?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bath work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Littleton (14%, 15 mi), Lisbon (14%, 8 mi), Haverhill (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bath walkable?
Bath is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bath without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bath, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bath
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.