Rank

349of 3,144

Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Score 7.11 / 10· population 427,354

Hillsborough County holds Manchester and Nashua, the state's two largest cities, and Nashua sits where the Nashua River meets the Merrimack, with a city levee along the Merrimack. Storms and flooding in October 2005, May 2006, April 2007, September 2008 and March 2010 each led to a federal disaster declaration covering the county. Manufacturing employed the most residents in 2024, while government jobs went to 10.5 percent of working residents, against 14.6 percent nationally.

Sources
  • Manchester is the largest city in New Hampshire by population, followed by Nashua; Manchester is one of the two county seats of Hillsborough County and Nashua is in the southern part of the county. worldatlas.com
  • Nashua is located at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack Rivers, and the city's Waterways department oversees the levee along the Merrimack River. nashuanh.gov
  • OpenFEMA disaster declarations for Hillsborough County, NH include five titled Severe Storms and Flooding with incident periods beginning October 7, 2005 (DR-1610), May 12, 2006 (DR-1643), April 15, 2007 (DR-1695), September 6, 2008 (DR-1799) and March 14, 2010 (DR-1913). fema.gov
  • DR-1643-NH, New Hampshire Severe Storms and Flooding, had an incident period of May 12 to May 23, 2006 and was declared May 25, 2006. fema.gov
  • ACS 2024 1-year estimate (table C24030, civilian employed population 16 and over): manufacturing employed 38,110 of Hillsborough County's 241,988 employed residents, more than any other detailed industry; health care and social assistance was next at 34,561. api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year (table B24080): 25,486 of Hillsborough County's 241,988 employed civilians (10.5%) were local, state, or federal government workers, against 24,424,760 of 167,292,670 nationally (14.6%). api.censusreporter.org

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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 President4.8
  4. Sales tax10.0
  5. Property tax1.9

Environment

  1. Air quality6.2
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.1
  2. Life expectancy8.9
  3. Government employees8.7
  4. Single-parent households6.5

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