Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0At 2.2%, unemployment in Newport is lower than in 82% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Newport; the top destination outside it is Lebanon (10%, 18 miles). The two grades for Newport are B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 10% of workers work from home, where New Hampshire as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Newport
Newport trades workers with the towns around it
Newport has about as many jobs (2,986) as working residents (3,243), but they are mostly different people: 2,394 residents leave for work each day while 2,137 people come in. Only 28% of the jobs in Newport are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Newport makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Newport are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Newport residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Newport’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Newport is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #102 of 126 in New Hampshire. Unemployment holds Newport’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% 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, Newport could be anywhere from C to B+.
Newport on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,394 residents head out to work, 849 work right here, and 2,137 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 (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Newport works in goods: 39% of its jobs
2,986 jobs are based in Newport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newport, 2014 → 2024: 3,293 → 2,986. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Newport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Newport’s working residents head each day
Where Newport clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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.
About 24 minutes to work from Newport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newport workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,218 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Newport
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Newport, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Newport is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #26 of 126 in New Hampshire. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across New Hampshire, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,559 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). 6.4% of Newport households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Newport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Newport is 1,848th among 3,306 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,700
| # | 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% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Auburn NH | 6,336 | $153K | 2.5% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 133 | Brookline NH | 5,858 | $171K | 0.6% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | North Hampton NH | 4,526 | $146K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,846 | Horseheads NY | 6,275 | $61K | 11.8% | 2.6% | 13% | B− |
| 1,847 | Morristown VT | 6,129 | $66K | 9.8% | 1.4% | 29% | B− |
| 1,848 | Newport NH | 6,417 | $80K | 11.8% | 2.2% | 26% | B− |
| 1,849 | Hilton NY | 5,873 | $87K | 12.6% | 6.2% | 9% | B− |
| 1,850 | Groton NY | 5,397 | $69K | 9.1% | 2.9% | 8% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,306 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Newport, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Newport and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Claremont (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Newport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | – | B− | B+ | 24 min | $80,341 |
| Croydon | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Claremont | 9% | C | B | 24 min | $59,096 |
| Goshen | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Unity | under 2% | B− | B− | 35 min | $87,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Croydon: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Goshen: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Newport’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 2024, 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 Newport: questions
What is the median household income in Newport?
$80,341 (±$11,943) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newport?
11.8%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newport?
24 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 Newport work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lebanon (10%, 18 mi), Claremont (9%, 7 mi), New London (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Newport walkable?
Newport is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.