Meadow Bridge · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Shelburne works elsewhere
Working residents average 25 minutes each way, next to 27 for New Hampshire and 26 for the U.S. There are 34 jobs in Shelburne for 156 working residents. For 9% of workers, the job is at home, next to 17% for New Hampshire as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Shelburne for work, and who comes in
On a workday 152 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Shelburne on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
29% of working residents work in Gorham
Where Shelburne clocks in
29% of workers
26% of workers
6% 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.
Shelburne makes things: 38% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shelburne, 2014 → 2024: 20 → 34. 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 Shelburne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, about the NH average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shelburne workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 245 commuters (the 9% 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.
Shelburne’s commute, mile by mile
About 19% 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.
Bordering towns draw 29% of Shelburne’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Gorham. Darker towns draw more of Shelburne’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 Shelburne: questions
What is the median household income in Shelburne?
$93,125 (±$18,336) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shelburne?
5.5%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shelburne?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shelburne work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gorham (29%, 6 mi), Berlin (26%, 12 mi), Conway (6%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Shelburne without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shelburne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shelburne
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.