Rank

305of 3,144

Strafford, New Hampshire

Score 7.16 / 10· population 133,243

Strafford County borders York County, Maine, and its three cities are Dover, Rochester and Somersworth. Life expectancy there was 78 years in 2020, a year and a half short of the state's 79.5; in 2021 Belknap and Strafford had New Hampshire's highest ratios of people to primary care providers. From 2020 to 2024 a typical owner paid $6,708 a year in property tax, about 1.8% of a $362,800 home and roughly double the US rate of 0.9%.

Sources
  • Strafford County borders Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, and Rockingham Counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine. co.strafford.nh.us
  • The county has three cities, Dover, Rochester, and Somersworth, and ten towns. co.strafford.nh.us
  • Life expectancy in 2020 was about 79.5 years statewide and 78 years in Strafford County (a gap of 1.5 years). nhfpi.org
  • In 2021, Belknap County and Strafford County had the largest population to primary care provider ratios in New Hampshire. nhfpi.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: in Strafford County the median real estate taxes paid were $6,708 and the median home value was $362,800. api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: in the United States the median real estate taxes paid were $3,119 and the median home value was $332,700. api.censusreporter.org
  • Computed from the two ACS 2020-2024 rows above: $6,708 is 1.85% of $362,800 in Strafford County, and $3,119 is 0.94% of $332,700 nationally, a ratio of about 2 to 1. 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 President4.4
  4. Sales tax10.0
  5. Property tax1.2

Environment

  1. Air quality6.8
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.5
  2. Life expectancy7.7
  3. Government employees8.7
  4. Single-parent households7.4

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