Colebrook - Columbia is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 2,761 people and just one neighborhood, Colebrook - Columbia is the 137th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns, Colebrook - Columbia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Colebrook - Columbia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Colebrook - Columbia is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Colebrook - Columbia who work in sales jobs (14.85%), management occupations (10.90%), and office and administrative support (7.26%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Colebrook - Columbia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Colebrook - Columbia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Colebrook - Columbia spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.16 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, Colebrook - Columbia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Colebrook - Columbia rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.25% of adults 25 and older in Colebrook - Columbia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Colebrook - Columbia in 2022 was $35,143, which is low income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,572 for a family of four. However, Colebrook - Columbia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Colebrook - Columbia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Colebrook - Columbia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Colebrook - Columbia include English, French, Irish, French Canadian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Colebrook - Columbia is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Colebrook - Columbia, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Colebrook - Columbia neighborhood.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.7%, which is higher than 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.4% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Colebrook - Columbia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 31.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.8%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French, Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Colebrook - Columbia, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.7%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (9.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.