Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Cornish works elsewhere
Only 4% work in Cornish; the top destination outside it is Lebanon (34%, 12 miles). 142 jobs are based in Cornish, against 619 working residents. For jobs and income Cornish is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Cornish apart
Cornish is a place people come home to
There are 142 jobs based in Cornish, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cornish has about 1,200 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Cornish works in Lebanon
211 working residents, 34%, have their main job in Lebanon, 12 miles away. That’s 9 times as many as work in Cornish itself. The commute map ↓
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 619 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Cornish gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Cornish’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Cornish’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cornish could be anywhere from B− to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Cornish
On a workday 595 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Cornish on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
The places Cornish commutes to
Where Cornish clocks in
34% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Cornish: what the 142 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornish, 2013 → 2023: 127 → 142. 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 Cornish’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Cornish
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornish workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 820 commuters (the 12% 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.
Miles to work from Cornish
About 17% 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 Cornish walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across New Hampshire, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 932 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Cornish households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cornish’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cornish places 1,416th of 5,381 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 154 | Newfields NH | 1,775 | $198K | 2.4% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 252 | Kensington NH | 2,092 | $165K | 1.9% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 393 | Madbury NH | 1,927 | $148K | 4.9% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,414 | Superior Township KS | 1,651 | $75K | 3.9% | 3.2% | 5% | B |
| 1,415 | Leverett MA | 1,850 | $105K | 10.0% | 9.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,416 | Cornish NH | 1,646 | $92K | 4.7% | 4.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,417 | North Newton KS | 1,791 | $87K | 4.8% | 6.5% | 6% | B |
| 1,418 | Lakeshire MO | 1,510 | $62K | 9.9% | 1.5% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Cornish, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Bordering towns draw 16% of Cornish’s workers
The biggest share goes to Plainfield (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cornish workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornish | – | B | D | 24 min | $91,821 |
| Plainfield | 9% | A− | B− | 22 min | $122,656 |
| Croydon | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Claremont | 5% | C | B | 24 min | $59,096 |
Same-state neighbors only. Croydon: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cornish’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 Cornish: questions
What is the median household income in Cornish?
$91,821 (±$2,398) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornish?
4.7%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornish?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornish work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lebanon (34%, 12 mi), Plainfield (9%, 5 mi), Hartford (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cornish walkable?
Cornish is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cornish without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cornish, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornish
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.