Nashua

City Commute Profile

Nashua, NH

Where Nashua’s 49,277 resident workers go each day — 29.4% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Manchester.

New HampshireLODES 2023 data
54
Commute Score

54 / 100

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

Nashua at a glance
Employed Residents
49,277
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
20.6mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
29.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
17.4%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Manchester
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Nashua 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 Nashua 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.

Nashua

49,277 commutes, one dot at a time

Nashua

Where 49,277 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

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

1Nashua0.0 mi14,510
2Manchester16.4 mi3,405
3Boston35.7 mi1,437
4Lowell11.4 mi1,165
5Concord32.9 mi739
6Londonderry9.3 mi549
7Portsmouth42.1 mi543
8East Merrimack7.9 mi502

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Nashua.

1Nashua0.0 mi14,510
2Manchester16.4 mi3,604
3Lowell11.4 mi989
4Milford10.6 mi889
5Hudson2.6 mi842
6Derry12.8 mi821
7Concord32.9 mi624
8Londonderry9.3 mi585

Top industries

The sectors that employ Nashua’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 Assistance17.2%
RTRetail Trade17.0%
MFManufacturing11.9%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.6%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.2%
WSWholesale Trade5.4%
EDEducational Services5.0%
PAPublic Administration3.6%

Nashua city profile

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

Population
91,294
Median age
40.0yrs
Median household income
$96,326
Median home value
$403,900
Median gross rent
$1,737/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
41.2%
Poverty rate
7.8%

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 Nashua

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

5 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 Nashua

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).