State agencies are required to submit budget requests every State Budget cycle, listing the activities they identified as core to their work as well as needs or requests unfunded or underfunded in past State Budgets. State agencies produce “efficiency budget” requests and identify “additional prioritized needs,” which together comprise the total agency request. These requests ...

The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey seeks to collect information on demographic and housing characteristics of residents of the United States within different geographies, ranging from describing the entire nation to understanding small communities. The U.S. Census Bureau produces five-year estimates, based on five successive years of survey data to achieve sufficient sample sizes ...

Using 2010 Census data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the map below shows population distribution across New Hampshire’s municipalities. The larger the population of the municipality, the darker the shade of red. The larger municipal populations are located in urban areas in and around Manchester and Nashua, as well as in Concord, Rochester, Dover, and ...

In 2015, New Hampshire residents filed almost 685,000 federal tax returns. Roughly 20.6 percent of tax returns in the state reported incomes of $100,000 or more. These tax returns may have included individuals, joint filers, and families with and without dependents, and this analysis does not control for income collected on a per capita basis. ...

Population age is an important demographic characteristic of a municipality, as it may indicate the size of the labor force and the life stage of residents. Using the 2010 Census data, the map below shows median age of the population in the state’s populated municipalities. The greater the median age in the municipality, the darker ...

There are significant disparities in the distribution of the New Hampshire population and median population ages between the southeastern region and more rural regions of the state, as municipalities located closer to metropolitan Boston typically have a lower median age than those in rural northern and western areas of the state. Aging demographics may prompt ...