Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Lempster commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Lempster has 211 jobs, and 477 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Lempster are C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 5% of workers, next to 17% for New Hampshire as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Lempster in brief
Jobs & income in Lempster: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Lempster is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lempster’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Lempster’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, Lempster could be anywhere from C− to B+.
A commute of about 37 minutes in Lempster
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lempster workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 496 commuters (the 5% 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.
Who commutes out of Lempster, and who commutes in
On a workday 460 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Lempster on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
11% of working residents work in Newport
Where Lempster clocks in
11% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Making and building: 35% of jobs based in Lempster
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lempster, 2013 → 2023: 149 → 211. 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 Lempster’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Lempster to work
About 15% 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.
The commute in Lempster is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lempster is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lempster 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 522 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 Lempster households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lempster’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lempster places 1,670th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 462 | Mason NH | 1,460 | $111K | 4.7% | 2.7% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 623 | Center Harbor NH | 1,049 | $104K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 699 | Wilmot NH | 1,471 | $118K | 2.3% | 1.6% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,668 | Coosada AL | 1,315 | $62K | 10.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,669 | Sparta Township IL | 1,022 | $69K | 7.2% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,670 | Lempster NH | 1,162 | $87K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,671 | Inverness CA | 1,346 | $80K | 4.8% | 10.0% | 10% | C+ |
| 1,672 | Milesburg PA | 1,062 | $61K | 6.7% | 1.4% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Lempster, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
The towns around Lempster
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lempster workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lempster | – | C+ | D | 37 min | $86,607 |
| Acworth | under 3% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Washington | under 3% | C+ | D | 36 min | $89,453 |
| Unity | under 3% | B− | B− | 35 min | $87,500 |
| Goshen | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Marlow | under 3% | — | — | 35 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Acworth and Marlow: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Goshen: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lempster’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 Lempster: questions
What is the median household income in Lempster?
$86,607 (±$11,858) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lempster?
7.2%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lempster?
37 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lempster work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (11%, 9 mi), Claremont (5%, 13 mi), Lebanon (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lempster walkable?
Lempster is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lempster 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 Lempster, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lempster
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.