Photo: Ken Gallager · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Sutton earn more than those in 91% of U.S. towns
Only 4% stay in Sutton for work; outside it, New London is the main destination (12%, 7 miles). 4.8% of residents are in poverty, where New Hampshire as a whole has 7.2%. The two grades for Sutton are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Sutton stands out on work
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Sutton
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sutton is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Sutton’s grade up ($130,313, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sutton could be anywhere from C+ to A.
70% of the jobs in Sutton pay over $3,333 a month
449 jobs are based in Sutton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sutton, 2013 → 2023: 347 → 449. 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 Sutton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Sutton, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 716 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 416 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Sutton on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Sutton work
Where Sutton clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Sutton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sutton workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,109 commuters (the 15% 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.
Miles to work from Sutton
About 17% 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 Sutton is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sutton is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sutton 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 1,301 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). 0.6% of Sutton households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Sutton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sutton next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800: 1,371st of 5,793 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Newfields NH | 1,775 | $198K | 2.4% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 249 | Mont Vernon NH | 2,698 | $158K | 4.4% | 1.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 275 | Hampton Falls NH | 2,379 | $166K | 4.0% | 2.8% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,369 | Melrose Township MI | 1,404 | $97K | 3.9% | 1.1% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,370 | Twin Lakes Township MN | 2,116 | $105K | 2.7% | 5.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,371 | Sutton NH | 2,064 | $130K | 4.8% | 3.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,372 | San Juan Bautista CA | 2,122 | $116K | 7.1% | 4.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,373 | Perry OH | 1,599 | $94K | 10.5% | 1.9% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Sutton, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
19% of Sutton works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sutton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton | – | B+ | C− | 29 min | $130,313 |
| Newbury | 7% | A− | C | 33 min | $116,477 |
| Warner | under 3% | B+ | B | 32 min | $94,022 |
| New London | 12% | B+ | A− | 25 min | $107,773 |
| Wilmot | under 3% | B+ | C− | 33 min | $117,759 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to New London. Darker towns draw more of Sutton’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 Sutton: questions
What is the median household income in Sutton?
$130,313 (±$31,080) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sutton?
4.8%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sutton?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sutton work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New London (12%, 7 mi), Concord (8%, 19 mi), Newbury (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sutton walkable?
Sutton is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sutton 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 Sutton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sutton
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.