About Sandown

Sandown is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 5,143 people and just one neighborhood, Sandown is the 75th largest community in New Hampshire.

Sandown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sandown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sandown who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.30%), management occupations (11.70%), and sales jobs (10.26%).

Also of interest is that Sandown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Sandown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sandown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sandown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sandown's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

In Sandown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.37 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Sandown is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Sandown, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.1% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Sandown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Sandown Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Sandown is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 21.60% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sandown in 2000 was $25,978, which is upper middle income relative to New Hampshire, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,912 for a family of four. However, Sandown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sandown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sandown is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sandown include Irish, Italian, French, French Canadian, English, German, Polish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Sandown is English.