Photo: Ken Gallager at Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0Enfield has some of the lowest unemployment in the country, with hardly anyone out of work
Measured by household income, Enfield is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Enfield B−; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 7% work in Enfield itself; outside it, Lebanon draws the most (39%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Enfield at work: what stands out
A lot of Enfield works one town over
43% of working residents work in a town that borders Enfield: Lebanon (39%) and Canaan (4%). Next door ↓
Enfield empties out on a workday
About 2,900 people are in Enfield on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than the 4,500 who live here: 2,100 head out to work and 570 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Enfield’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Enfield is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #95 of 126 in New Hampshire. Unemployment holds Enfield’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Enfield could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Enfield by day and by night
On a workday 2,100 residents head out to work, 166 work right here, and 574 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Enfield on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.33 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 people from Enfield work
Where Enfield clocks in
39% of workers
12% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Enfield
740 jobs are based in Enfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enfield, 2013 → 2023: 606 → 740. 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 Enfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Enfield takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enfield workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,886 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.
Half of Enfield commutes less than 11 miles
About 16% 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.
In Enfield, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Enfield is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #40 of 126 in New Hampshire. Both inputs place Enfield 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 2,119 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 23% 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 2.7% of Enfield households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Enfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Enfield is 1,917th of 4,000 U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 144 | Brookline NH | 5,858 | $171K | 0.6% | 0.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | North Hampton NH | 4,526 | $146K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 221 | Greenland NH | 4,143 | $163K | 0.5% | 2.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,915 | Rutland Township IL | 3,581 | $91K | 12.3% | 3.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,916 | Aroma Township IL | 4,827 | $75K | 15.8% | 2.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,917 | Enfield NH | 4,470 | $95K | 16.6% | 0.0% | 7% | B− |
| 1,918 | Glen Raven NC | 3,506 | $63K | 16.7% | 1.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,919 | Bellville TX | 4,379 | $60K | 9.1% | 0.5% | 14% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Enfield, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Next door is work for 43% of Enfield
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Lebanon. Darker towns draw more of Enfield’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 Enfield: questions
What is the median household income in Enfield?
$95,474 (±$18,614) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enfield?
16.6%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enfield?
24 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 Enfield work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lebanon (39%, 7 mi), Hanover (12%, 9 mi), Hartford (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enfield walkable?
Enfield is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Enfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enfield
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.