Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Lisbon’s household incomes are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Lisbon are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 8.6% of residents; New Hampshire has 7.2%. 10% of workers have no commute at all, against 17% across New Hampshire.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lisbon, in brief
Lisbon makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Lisbon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lisbon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Lisbon and Littleton trade workers both ways
Littleton is the top workplace for Lisbon residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Lisbon come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Lisbon are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 27 across New Hampshire. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical New Hampshire worker. Time on the road ↓
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 699 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Lisbon: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Lisbon is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lisbon’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Lisbon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lisbon could be anywhere from D to B−.
Lisbon works in goods: 66% of its jobs
798 jobs are based in Lisbon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lisbon, 2013 → 2023: 674 → 798. 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 Lisbon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in Littleton
Where Lisbon clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Getting to work from Lisbon takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lisbon workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 700 commuters (the 10% 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.
Lisbon on a workday afternoon
On a workday 599 residents head out to work, 100 work right here, and 698 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 (1.14 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.
How far it is to work from Lisbon
About 22% 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 Lisbon is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lisbon is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across New Hampshire, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 780 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 3.8% of Lisbon households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lisbon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Lisbon ranks 3,932nd of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 175 | Newfields NH | 1,775 | $198K | 2.4% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 282 | Kensington NH | 2,092 | $165K | 1.9% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 439 | Madbury NH | 1,927 | $148K | 4.9% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,930 | Barry Township IL | 1,553 | $77K | 14.9% | 5.3% | 14% | C |
| 3,931 | Greenwood Township MI | 1,473 | $83K | 14.0% | 5.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,932 | Lisbon NH | 1,626 | $66K | 8.6% | 1.8% | 14% | C |
| 3,933 | Vander NC | 1,922 | $67K | 23.4% | 4.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,934 | Cadott WI | 1,473 | $71K | 15.8% | 0.6% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Lisbon, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
The towns next door employ 17% of Lisbon
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lisbon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon | – | C | C+ | 22 min | $65,500 |
| Landaff | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Littleton | 17% | C | A | 14 min | $56,746 |
| Lyman | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Sugar Hill | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Landaff, Lyman and Sugar Hill: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Littleton. Darker towns draw more of Lisbon’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 Lisbon: questions
What is the median household income in Lisbon?
$65,500 (±$12,996) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lisbon?
8.6%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lisbon?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lisbon work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Littleton (17%, 7 mi), Haverhill (9%, 14 mi), Monroe (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lisbon walkable?
Lisbon is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lisbon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lisbon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lisbon
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.