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Cheshire, New Hampshire

Score 6.91 / 10· population 77,703

Cheshire County, which had 76,458 residents in 2020, is in southwestern New Hampshire near the Vermont and Massachusetts borders. Keene, the county seat, set a 2025 property tax rate of $34.37 per $1,000 of value, second highest in the state, and $15.93 of that is the local education rate. Across 2020 to 2024, the biggest line of work for people living there was health care and social assistance, at 6,216 workers, ahead of manufacturing at 5,680.

Sources
  • Cheshire County is located in southwestern New Hampshire, near the Vermont and Massachusetts borders. whereig.com
  • Keene is the county seat; Cheshire County had a population of 76,458 in the 2020 Census. whereig.com
  • Keene's 2025 property tax rate is $34.37 per $1,000 of value, the second highest in New Hampshire after Charlestown (article dated December 16, 2025). mykeenenow.com
  • The local education portion of Keene's 2025 tax rate rose 77 cents, from $15.16 to $15.93, the biggest gain of any component. mykeenenow.com
  • Largest industries by employment of Cheshire County residents: Health Care & Social Assistance (6,216 people), Manufacturing (5,680), Retail Trade (5,327). Data USA labels these 2024; they are the ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates (Census Reporter table C24030, acs2024_5yr, gives the same counts). datausa.io

v4 — beta, 30 October 2026, sourced values

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)8.3
  2. 2A (state)10.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President4.5
  4. Sales tax10.0
  5. Property tax0.7

Environment

  1. Air quality6.2
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.4

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.0
  2. Life expectancy8.2
  3. Government employees5.1
  4. Single-parent households8.6

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