Carsey Institute: Child Poverty High in Manchester

The Carsey Institute has released a disturbing demographic analysis of children in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Some findings:

In Manchester, 25% of children live below the poverty line. This is in stark contrast to the amounts of children living in poverty nearby and across the state: 8% in Nashua, 5% in suburban areas in Hillsborough, and 10% in all of New Hampshire.

"Analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the report finds additional contrasts between the cities of Nashua and Manchester and suburban Hillsborough County. After significant growth between 1990 and 2000, Manchester and Nashua barely grew from 2000 to 2007: Manchester grew by only 1,700 residents, or two percent, and Nashua by 200 residents, just .3 percent. The rest of Hillsborough County, however, grew by nearly 20,000 people, or 11 percent. Suburban Hillsborough is gaining migrants while Manchester and Nashua are experiencing migration loss.

The Manchester-Nashua metropolitan area is New Hampshire’s most diverse, with nearly half of all the state’s minorities living there. Minorities fueled the modest growth of Nashua and Manchester, with the minority population growing 32 percent in Manchester and 24 percent in Nashua, while non-Hispanic white population declined in both areas. In the suburbs, most population gain was fueled by non-Hispanic whites, though the minority population also grew."

UNH Press release: http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2009/oct/bp26manch.cfm

The full report is available to download here: http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/IB-Johnson-Manchester.pdf