Nashua profile

Living in Nashua

Nashua is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 87,882 people and 18 constituent neighborhoods, Nashua is the second largest community in New Hampshire.

Nashua is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nashua is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nashua who work in office and administrative support (14.46%), sales jobs (10.58%), and management occupations (10.32%).

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

The population of Nashua is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.93% of adults in Nashua have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Nashua in 2010 was $33,896, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,584 for a family of four. However, Nashua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Nashua is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nashua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nashua residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Nashua also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nashua include French , Italian, French Canadian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Nashua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Indic languages.