Tri-County Community Action Program, Inc.
Helping people, changing lives... in the North Country of New Hampshire

The North Country of NH

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Most Tri-County CAP programs operate in the northern three

counties of New Hampshire, Carroll, Coös and Grafton.

 

 Guardianship Services and our Alcohol and Other Drug Projects

serve NH residents statewide.

 

The chart below (updated 12/06 with the most current US Census

Bureau data available) gives an overview of Northern NH.

For additional County-by-County information, as well as

information for specific cities and towns, visit the US Census

web pages for Carroll County, Coös County, or Grafton County.

  Area in Square Miles

Population

(2007 est.)

Population

per

Square Mile

Median Household Income (2007) Percent of Population
Below Poverty Level (2007)

Under Age 18

(2007)

Over

Age 65

(2007)

Over Age 25 With

No High School Diploma

(2000)

Bachelor Degree

(2000)

Carroll 934 47,380 51 $ 49,111 9.5 19.5 18.2 11.8 26.5
Coös 1,800 32,772 18 $ 40,857 11.7 19.3 18.7 23.1 11.9
Grafton 1,713 85,514 50 $ 51,857 7.7 19.0 15.1 12.3 32.7
NH State 8,968 1,315,828 147 $ 62,048 7.3 22.7 12.6 12.6 28.7

 

The 3 northern counties of NH include 4,447 sq. miles, 49.6 % of the state's area.

They are home to 165,666 people, 12.6% of the state's population.

A more detailed look at demographic information pertaining to the northern
3 counties of NH is available in Adobe Reader (.PDF) format* here (2010 edition).

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