Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of North Walpole works elsewhere
Home is the office for 5% of workers, where New Hampshire as a whole has 17%. 238 jobs are based in North Walpole, and 415 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% work in North Walpole itself; outside it, Walpole draws the most (16%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in North Walpole: the gist
Commuting out of North Walpole: the destinations
Where North Walpole clocks in
16% of workers
15% 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 workday shuffle in and out of North Walpole
On a workday 405 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 228 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in North Walpole on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
North Walpole makes things: 79% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in North Walpole, 2014 → 2024: 232 → 238. 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 North Walpole’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from North Walpole 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 North Walpole workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 266 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.
Half of North Walpole commutes less than 17 miles
About 21% 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.
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 North Walpole: questions
What is the median household income in North Walpole?
$74,167 (±$16,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in North Walpole?
11.7%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from North Walpole?
24 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 North Walpole work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walpole (16%, 5 mi), Keene (15%, 15 mi), Rockingham (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around North Walpole without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from North Walpole, from the people who make the trip.
More of North Walpole
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.