Bennett Farm · Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.027% of Henniker’s residents are college students
About one in seven work in Henniker itself; outside it, Concord draws the most (15%, 14 miles). Jobs and income earn Henniker B+; getting around on foot earns it A−. Measured by family income, Henniker is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Henniker apart
Commutes from Henniker are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 27 across New Hampshire. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical New Hampshire worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Henniker pay little
27% of the jobs based in Henniker pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. 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.
The four measures behind Henniker’s grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Henniker is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #56 of 126 in New Hampshire. Family income holds Henniker’s grade up ($124,167, U.S. $99,999); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (18% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 6.2%, against 11.6% for all residents. Unemployment (1.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($124,167), since student households pull the household median down ($95,206).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Henniker could be anywhere from C to A.
How long Henniker spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Henniker workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,676 commuters (the 16% 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 1,631 jobs based in Henniker
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Henniker, 2013 → 2023: 1,540 → 1,631. 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 Henniker’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Henniker by day and by night
On a workday 1,995 residents head out to work, 383 work right here, and 1,248 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,500 people are in Henniker on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.69 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 Henniker’s working residents head each day
Where Henniker clocks in
15% of workers
10% of workers
3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Henniker
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Henniker
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across New Hampshire, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,167 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). 2.1% of Henniker households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Henniker’s commuters take a bus or train.
991st of 3,297: where Henniker ranks among U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Auburn NH | 6,336 | $153K | 2.5% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Brookline NH | 5,858 | $171K | 0.6% | 0.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | North Hampton NH | 4,526 | $146K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 989 | Springfield Township PA | 6,186 | $122K | 9.2% | 4.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 990 | Indian River Shores FL | 4,467 | $156K | 6.7% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 991 | Henniker NH | 6,256 | $95K | 11.6% | 1.2% | 16% | B+ |
| 992 | Green Hill TN | 6,866 | $92K | 5.2% | 6.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 993 | Lafayette WI | 6,430 | $102K | 2.7% | 4.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,297 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Henniker, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Around Henniker: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Hopkinton (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Henniker workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henniker | – | B+ | A− | 20 min | $95,206 |
| Hillsborough | 2% | B+ | C+ | 41 min | $84,495 |
| Hopkinton | 3% | A | C | 22 min | $137,477 |
| Weare | 3% | A | C | 36 min | $118,271 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Henniker’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.
- Students. 27% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Henniker: questions
What is the median household income in Henniker?
$95,206 (±$20,525) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Henniker?
11.6% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 6.2%. New Hampshire: 7.2%.
How long is the commute from Henniker?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Henniker work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Concord (15%, 14 mi), Manchester (10%, 23 mi), Weare (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Henniker walkable?
Henniker is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Henniker 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 Henniker, from the people who make the trip.
More of Henniker
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.