Photo: Fletcher · CC BY 4.0Households in Wolfeboro have higher incomes than those in 72% of U.S. towns
8.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where New Hampshire as a whole has 7.2%. For jobs and income Wolfeboro is better than 43% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in three work in Wolfeboro itself; outside it, Ossipee draws the most (4%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wolfeboro: the figures worth knowing
The quickest commute around
Wolfeboro’s 24-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 27 to 33 minutes. Next door ↓
Wolfeboro’s workforce skews older
36% of Wolfeboro’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
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.
How Wolfeboro earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Wolfeboro’s grade up ($94,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wolfeboro could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Wolfeboro
3,202 jobs are based in Wolfeboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wolfeboro, 2013 → 2023: 2,771 → 3,202. 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 Wolfeboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Wolfeboro
On a workday 1,511 residents head out to work, 827 work right here, and 2,375 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,500 people are in Wolfeboro on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.37 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.
Where Wolfeboro goes to work
Where Wolfeboro clocks in
4% of workers
4% 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.
Getting to work from Wolfeboro 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 Wolfeboro workers work from home, vs 17% across New Hampshire. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,242 commuters (the 23% 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 Wolfeboro
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 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 Wolfeboro is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% 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 2,907 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). 1.2% of Wolfeboro households have no vehicle (New Hampshire 4.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wolfeboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,600 to 9,000, Wolfeboro ranks 2,099th of 3,334 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Auburn NH | 6,336 | $153K | 2.5% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Hollis NH | 8,819 | $169K | 1.9% | 2.0% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 137 | Brookline NH | 5,858 | $171K | 0.6% | 0.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,097 | Blakely PA | 6,611 | $56K | 9.0% | 5.3% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,098 | Mount Carmel TN | 5,540 | $69K | 7.0% | 7.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,099 | Wolfeboro NH | 6,637 | $94K | 8.2% | 5.0% | 35% | C+ |
| 2,100 | Mead Township OH | 5,245 | $55K | 10.2% | 1.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,101 | Mount Pleasant IA | 8,500 | $61K | 15.7% | 1.7% | 44% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,334 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Wolfeboro, the top three, the last and three more from New Hampshire.
Wolfeboro and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wolfeboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfeboro | – | C+ | B+ | 24 min | $94,375 |
| Tuftonboro | 3% | B− | B+ | 30 min | $100,574 |
| Ossipee | 4% | B | C | 33 min | $90,521 |
| Alton | under 2% | B+ | C− | 33 min | $113,715 |
| Brookfield | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Brookfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ossipee. Darker towns draw more of Wolfeboro’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 Wolfeboro: questions
What is the median household income in Wolfeboro?
$94,375 (±$22,213) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,031 across New Hampshire and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wolfeboro?
8.2%, against 7.2% across New Hampshire and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wolfeboro?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across New Hampshire and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wolfeboro work?
35% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ossipee (4%, 8 mi), Manchester (4%, 46 mi), Concord (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wolfeboro walkable?
Wolfeboro is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wolfeboro without a car?
0% 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 Wolfeboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wolfeboro
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.