Londonderry is a

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(CDP) within the

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of Londonderry in Rockingham County,

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, United States. The population of the CDP was 11,645 at the 2020 census, out of 25,826 in the entire town.

Geography

The CDP occupies the more intensively developed eastern and southern parts of the town of Londonderry, including the east half of the historic town center near the top of Moose Hill. The CDP includes the Londonderry town offices (east side of Mammoth Road) but not the

Londonderry High School Londonderry High School (LHS) is a public secondary school serving grades 9 through 12 in the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States. It is the sole secondary school in the Londonderry School District. It was constructed in 1972 as a j ...

and Middle School complexes (west side of Mammoth Road). The CDP is bordered to the east by the town of

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, to the southeast by the town of Windham, and to the southwest by the town of

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. From the Hudson town line, the CDP boundary follows

New Hampshire Route 102 New Hampshire Route 102 (abbreviated NH 102) is a state highway in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham and Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Hillsborough counties in the southern part of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. NH 102 runs sout ...

(Nashua Road),

New Hampshire Route 128 New Hampshire Route 128 (abbreviated NH 128) is a north–south highway in southeastern New Hampshire. NH 128 runs from the Massachusetts border in Pelham northward to Londonderry, south of Manchester. NH 128 is named Mammoth Road throughout its ...

(

Mammoth Road Mammoth Road is a north–south road in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The road runs from its origin in Lowell, Massachusetts to its northern end in Hooksett, New Hampshire, a suburb of Manchester. The total length of the road is . It was n ...

), Stonehenge Road,

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, and Ash Street to the Derry town line. New Hampshire Route 102 crosses the CDP, leading northeast to the center of Derry and southwest to

. Route 128 leads north to

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in North Londonderry and south to

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is to the north via Routes 128 and 28. According to the

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, the Londonderry CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.19%, are water. Most of the CDP drains southeast to Beaver Brook, which forms the border with the town of Windham and flows south to the

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in Lowell, Massachusetts. The southwest corner of the CDP drains west via Chase Brook to the Merrimack in Litchfield.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 11,037 people, 3,958 households, and 3,098 families residing in the CDP. There were 4,105 housing units, of which 147, or 3.6%, were vacant. The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.8%

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, 0.8%

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, 0.1% Native American, 1.5%

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n, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.5% some other race, and 1.4% from two or more races. 2.5% of the population were

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of any race. Of the 3,958 households in the CDP, 39.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.8% were headed by married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.7% were non-families. 16.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.5% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79, and the average family size was 3.13. 25.6% of residents in the CDP were under the age of 18, 7.6% were from age 18 to 24, 22.9% were from 25 to 44, 33.6% were from 45 to 64, and 10.3% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.0 males. For the period 2011–15, the estimated median annual income for a household was $89,643, and the median income for a family was $97,386. Male full-time workers had a median income of $75,000 versus $43,291 for females. The

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for the CDP was $38,835. 3.6% of the population and 2.0% of families were below the poverty line, along with 5.4% of people under the age of 18 and 2.8% of people 65 or older.

References

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