Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester population, 2020 to 2024

Manchester added 874 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +694. Among 13 New Hampshire places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +1.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Hampshire has 22,938 people, so Manchester is 5.1 times that size.

Manchester covers 33.07 square miles of land and 1.86 of water, for 3,519 people per square mile of land. The median New Hampshire place of 5,000+ has 746, so Manchester is denser than the typical town.

What county Manchester is in

All of Manchester's residents live in Hillsborough County, which had 430,462 residents in 2024. Manchester holds 27.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Manchester

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Manchester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 03101, 03102, 03103, 03104, 03109. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Manchester is

The Census internal point of Manchester is at 42.984900, -71.444100. Concord, the capital, is 16.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lowell, MA (120,418 people), 24.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 80 m (262 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Manchester

At 42.98° N, Manchester gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Manchester daylight page.

Places near Manchester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Hampshire, measured between internal points. The closest is Nashua, 16.5 miles away, with 91,851 people.