Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0How Contoocook works: jobs, income and commuting
Commuters spend 23 minutes getting to work on average, next to 27 for New Hampshire and 26 for the U.S. Only 7% work in Contoocook itself; outside it, Concord draws the most (25%, 8 miles). Working from home is the commute for 24% of workers; New Hampshire has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Contoocook
Contoocook and Concord trade workers both ways
Concord is the top workplace for Contoocook residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Contoocook come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Contoocook makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Contoocook are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Contoocook residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 13%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 646 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Contoocook goes to work
Where Contoocook clocks in
25% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 37% of the jobs in Contoocook
731 jobs are based in Contoocook.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Contoocook, 2013 → 2023: 801 → 731. 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 Contoocook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Contoocook, and who commutes in
On a workday 599 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 684 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Contoocook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Contoocook workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 591 commuters (the 24% 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.
How far it is to work from Contoocook
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.
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 Contoocook: questions
What is the median household income in Contoocook?
$97,928 (±$23,883) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Contoocook?
6.2%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Contoocook?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Contoocook work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Concord (25%, 8 mi), Hopkinton (16%, 2 mi), Manchester (9%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Contoocook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Contoocook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Contoocook
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.