Enfield is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...

(CDP) and the main village in the

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Enfield Enfield may refer to: Places Australia * Enfield, New South Wales * Enfield, South Australia ** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb ** Enfield High School (South Australia) ...

in Grafton County,

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...

, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,571 at the 2020 census, out of 4,465 in the entire town.

Geography

The CDP is in the northwest corner of the town of Enfield, on the north side of

Mascoma Lake Mascoma Lake is a lake in western New Hampshire, United States. Most of the lake is within the town of Enfield, while a small portion is within the city of Lebanon, where it drains into the Mascoma River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. T ...

where the

Mascoma River The Mascoma River is a river in western New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound. The Mascoma comprises two sections which are split by Mascoma Lake in the communities of Enf ...

enters it. The CDP is bordered to the south by Mascoma Lake, as far as Rainer Road on the east side of the lake; to the west by the city of

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

; to the north by the town of

Canaan Canaan (; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – ; he, כְּנַעַן – , in pausa – ; grc-bib, Χανααν – ;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus T ...

; and to the east by Shaker Boulevard, Wescott Road, and the Northern Rail Trail running east to the Canaan line. U.S. Route 4 passes through the community, leading east to Canaan village and west the same distance to the center of Lebanon. According to the

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, the Enfield CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 2.12%, are water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 1,540 people, 712 households, and 419 families residing in the CDP. There were 787 housing units, of which 75, or 9.5%, were vacant. The racial makeup of the town was 96.4% white, 0.6%

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, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native, 0.5%

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n, 0.4% some other race, and 1.9% from two or more races. 1.4% of the population were

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of any race. Of the 712 households, 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7% were headed by married couples living together, 13.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.2% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16, and the average family size was 2.75. 21.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 8.2% were from age 18 to 24, 27.6% were 25 to 44, 27.5% were 45 to 64, and 15.3% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.7 males. For the period 2011-2015, the estimated median annual income for a household in the CDP was $75,313, and the median income for a family was $91,369. Male full-time workers had a median income of $47,950 versus $42,841 for females. The

per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita i ...

for the CDP was $49,008.

References

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