Fitzwilliam - Richmond is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 3,659 people and just one neighborhood, Fitzwilliam - Richmond is the 117th largest community in New Hampshire.
Unlike some towns, Fitzwilliam - Richmond isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fitzwilliam - Richmond are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fitzwilliam - Richmond is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fitzwilliam - Richmond who work in office and administrative support (10.39%), food service (8.48%), and sales jobs (7.91%).
Also of interest is that Fitzwilliam - Richmond has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Fitzwilliam - Richmond telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.21% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Fitzwilliam - Richmond is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fitzwilliam - Richmond really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fitzwilliam - Richmond perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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, Fitzwilliam - Richmond has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fitzwilliam - Richmond a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Fitzwilliam - Richmond is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fitzwilliam - Richmond, the average commute to work is 36.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Fitzwilliam - Richmond is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.77% of adults in Fitzwilliam - Richmond have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fitzwilliam - Richmond in 2022 was $44,142, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $176,568 for a family of four. However, Fitzwilliam - Richmond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fitzwilliam - Richmond home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fitzwilliam - Richmond residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fitzwilliam - Richmond include English, Irish, French, German, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Fitzwilliam - Richmond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, real estate in the neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 5.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% 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 Fitzwilliam - Richmond are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.4% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 11.9% 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 97.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fitzwilliam - Richmond, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report French roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.