Manchester

City Commute Profile

Manchester, NH

Where Manchester’s 61,478 resident workers go each day — 36.3% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Nashua.

New HampshireLODES 2023 data
61
Commute Score

61 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Manchester at a glance
Employed Residents
61,478
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
17.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
36.3%
Share working within the area
Work from home
14.1%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Nashua
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Manchester proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Manchester commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Manchester

61,478 commutes, one dot at a time

Manchester

Where 61,478 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Manchester, by worker count.

1Manchester0.0 mi22,289
2Nashua16.4 mi3,604
3Concord17.1 mi2,970
4Derry10.0 mi1,040
5Boston49.5 mi972
6Portsmouth34.9 mi831
7Londonderry10.6 mi786
8South Hooksett3.5 mi660

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Manchester.

1Manchester0.0 mi22,289
2Nashua16.4 mi3,405
3Concord17.1 mi2,735
4Derry10.0 mi1,542
5Londonderry10.6 mi891
6South Hooksett3.5 mi872
7Hooksett7.1 mi755
8Rochester32.7 mi587

Top industries

The sectors that employ Manchester’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance20.2%
RTRetail Trade10.1%
EDEducational Services8.9%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.8%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.2%
MFManufacturing7.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.0%
WSWholesale Trade4.3%
FIFinance and Insurance3.6%

Manchester city profile

Who lives in Manchester — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
115,643
Median age
38.0yrs
Median household income
$81,007
Median home value
$365,600
Median gross rent
$1,564/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
34.0%
Poverty rate
11.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Manchester

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Manchester

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).