Concord, NH Micro Area

The Concord, NH micro area is one county in New Hampshire: Merrimack County. About 158,078 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 2.8% more than in April 2020.

Merrimack County, centralConcord
Merrimack County in New Hampshire
Population, July 2025
158,078 2.8% more than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
County
Merrimack County
Land area
933 sq mi (2,416 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
New Hampshire
Combined statistical area
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH
CBSA code
18180

The county in the Concord, NH micro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Merrimack CountyCentral158,078

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Concord44,375 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 6 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area5,034,221 people
  2. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area1,708,161 people
  3. Worcester, MA Metro Area888,502 people
  4. Manchester-Nashua, NH Metro Area433,415 people
  5. Barnstable Town, MA Metro Area233,539 people
  6. Laconia, NH Micro Area65,147 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Manchester-Nashua, NH Metro Area18 mi south
  2. Laconia, NH Micro Area24 mi north
  3. Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT Micro Area45 mi northwest
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area68 mi southeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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