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SheetNH-CONCORD-NH · Concord, NH 44,219 pop · income 65th pct · 39 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Concord
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Concord on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Wilkes-Barre · lowest
47,970
Wilkes-Barre · lowest
47,970 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #1
New Munster · near
83,686
New Munster · near
83,686 median HH income
63.4% of the leader · rank #2
De Graff · near
83,693
De Graff · near
83,693 median HH income
63.4% of the leader · rank #3
Lauderdale La… · near
83,698
Lauderdale La… · near
83,698 median HH income
63.4% of the leader · rank #4
Concord · this city
83,701
Concord · this city
83,701 median HH income
63.4% of the leader · rank #5
Thruston · near
83,707
Thruston · near
83,707 median HH income
63.4% of the leader · rank #6
Oakley · highest
132,067
Oakley · highest
132,067 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Concord on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 44,219.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Concord - the verdict
Nationally, Concord sits in the 65th percentile for household income and the 49th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
65th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
49th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Concord, NH
44,219 people live in Concord, New Hampshire - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $83,701 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.2%. Concord's housing stock carries a median value of $323,700, and the median resident age is 40.7 years. About 40.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 55 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 34% from five years earlier. Concord reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1409.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 47.2°F with 42.0 inches of precipitation per year and 67.7 inches of snowfall.
New Hampshire carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New Hampshire at 104.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,894 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Hampshire's average monthly utility costs around $307 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 69.9 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Concord's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Concord, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Concord?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Concord?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
PlainCities matches 39 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Concord?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within New Hampshire, the closest population matches are Dover (33,070 residents, $92,748 income); Rochester (32,866 residents, $79,388 income); Keene (22,923 residents, $78,183 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wilkes-Barre, PA (44,217 residents); Salem, MA (44,241 residents); North Fort Myers, FL (44,189 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Concord?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 40.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
5.2%
Bachelor's degree+
40.1%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Concord?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1409.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 38% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
1409.9
Violent rate
180.7
Property rate
1229.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 47.2°F, with 42.0 inches of precipitation and 67.7 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New Hampshire is 69.9 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
69.9
Annual precipitation
42.0 in
Mean temperature
47.2°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +550 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 55 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
44,047
2025 estimate
44,597
Period change
+1.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
104.2 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Hampshire average
C
City profile score · Concord, NH
55/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$83,701
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C-
181 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
104.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Concord profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 40.1%
Poverty rate: 64/100 (C+) · 5.2%
Household income: 63/100 (C+) · $83,701
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 181 /100k
Cost of living: 23/100 (F) · 104.2 index
Where Concord sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Concord's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Concord highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Concord, NH (this city): home $323,700, crime 1,410/100k
Wilkes-Barre, PA : home $108,000, crime 1,989/100k
Salem, MA : home $497,400, crime 1,706/100k
El Centro, CA : home $291,100, crime 1,596/100k
Oakley, CA : home $632,800, crime 1,113/100k
Dover, NH : home $398,500, crime 834/100k
Rochester, NH : home $262,600, crime 1,221/100k
Keene, NH : home $232,500, crime 2,352/100k
Portsmouth, NH : home $640,600, crime 1,472/100k
Derry, NH : home $356,700, crime 827/100k
Laconia, NH : home $308,800, crime 2,678/100k
How does Concord compare to other US cities?
Concord measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety49% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to New Hampshire alone, Concord ranks #35 of 53 New Hampshire cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Concord against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Hampshire only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Hampshire-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Concord near the bottom of New Hampshire's cities
Among the 100 New Hampshire cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Concord ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Concord only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#32 of 92
65th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 100
0th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Home Value
#36 of 94
61st percentile in New Hampshire
Poverty Rate
#36 of 99
63rd percentile in New Hampshire
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#35 of 100
65th percentile in New Hampshire
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New Hampshire only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
65th percentile nationally for median household income · 49th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Concord's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Concord's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Concord's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$323,70032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Concord's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,280 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,853 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.9×, Concord sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,280 of 15,516 and #1,853 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$83,701Concord, NH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Concord, NH median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Concord, NH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
44,219
Median Income
$83,701
Median Home Value
$323,700
Median Age
40.7
Poverty Rate
5.2%
Labor force participation
60.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1409.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
180.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1229.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
47.2°F
Annual Precipitation
42.0"
Annual Snowfall
67.7"
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Concord's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
44,047 residents
2021
44,186 residents
2022
44,413 residents
2023
44,527 residents
2024
44,573 residents
2025
44,597 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
55
housing units authorized
Single-Family
27
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
83
17
66
$13.4M
2020
109
55
54
$23.0M
2021
102
34
68
$13.2M
2022
113
39
74
$17.2M
2023
50
38
12
$11.4M
2024
55
27
28
$13.6M
Permit volume decreased 34% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.9%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
5.0%
Work from Home
12.9%
Other
1.9%
Based on 22,498 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Hampshire statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $307
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Hampshire at $307 (electricity about $150 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are New Hampshire statewide averages, not a meter reading for Concord. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Hampshire's BEA cost-of-living index is 104.2 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Concord is $1,894/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Hampshire statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.9 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Hampshire statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Concord sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Concord compares to similar-size New Hampshire cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.