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 counte ...

(CDP) and the main village in the

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of Enfield in Grafton County,

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, 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 northwestern 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, New Hampshire, Enfield, while a small portion is within the city of Lebanon, New Hampshire, Lebanon, where it drains into the Mascoma ...

where the

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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

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; to the north by the town of

Canaan CanaanThe current scholarly edition of the Septuagint, Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interprets. 2. ed. / recogn. et emendavit Robert Hanhart. Stuttgart : D ...

; and to the east by Shaker Boulevard, Wescott Road, and the Northern Rail Trail running east to the Canaan line.

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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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or Latino of any race. Of the 712 households, 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.7% were headed by

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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

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for the CDP was $49,008.

References

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