Research

Town of Plymouth

“We want to recruit businesses from outside the town.”

“Can you help us with data that could be useful in recruiting?”

Data

Variables:

• Population
• Educational attainment
• Occupation

Source:

• American Community Survey (ACS)
• 5-year estimates of 2013-2017
• US Census Bureau

Study Area

Access to Interstate and beautiful nature

For town names on the map, click here. https://www.nh.gov/osi/data-center/census/tract-maps.htm

Total population

Plymouth has the largest population in the region, outside Lebanon and Hanover.

Total Population with BA or higher

Plymouth and neighboring towns offer thousands of highly educated workers.

Total Population with STEM degrees, age of 25 - 64

Plymouth and neighboring towns offer more than two thousand residents with STEM degrees.

STEM includes computer science, mathematics, engineering, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. STEM-related fields consist of architecture and health care. Non-STEM fields are all other fields not classified in STEM or STEM-related fields.

Total Population with STEM-related degrees, age of 25 - 64

Plymouth and neighboring towns offer nearly two hundred residents with STEM-related degrees.

STEM includes computer science, mathematics, engineering, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. STEM-related fields consist of architecture and health care. Non-STEM fields are all other fields not classified in STEM or STEM-related fields.

What are most common occupations in New Hampshire?

What are most common occupations in each subregion of New Hampshire?

What are unique occupations in each subregion relative to the State?

Location quotients are useful for studying the composition of jobs in an area relative to the average, or for finding areas that have high concentrations of jobs in certain occupations. As measured here, a location quotient shows the occupation’s share of an area’s employment relative to the state average. For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does in the entire state, and a location quotient of 0.5 indicates the area’s share of employment in the occupation is half the state share. https://www.bls.gov/oes/highlight_location_quotients.htm

What are occupations both common and unique in each subregion of New Hampshire?

Occupations that are high in both location quotient and employment are not only economically important but also uniquely characteristic to the subreion.

What are occupations both common and unique in each region of New Hampshire?

Future research

• Expand the analysis to include other areas that Plymouth likely compete against.
• Add additional data from other sources (for example, taxes and building capacity)
• Label the map so that it’s easy to identify towns.
• Provide tables of actual data, in addition to maps.