Demographic trends in the Manchester-nashua Metropolitan area

introduction the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area has undergone a complex set of population shifts amid growing diversity. This brief documents those changes with recent data. For this research, we divide the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area into three parts: • the city of Manchester, with a population of 108,900 in 2007 • the city of nashua, with a population of 86,800 in 2007 • the balance of Hillsborough County, which we refer to as the suburbs, with a population of 207,000 in 2007 These three regions of the metropolitan area have had distinctly different demographic trends since 1990. Many economic, demographic, and social forces have buffeted the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area over the past century, and understanding the region’s future depends in part on appreciating its past. to that end, the demographic data and analysis provided by Kenneth Johnson are accompanied by sidebars in which robert Macieski presents the historical perspective on such issues as suburbanization, immigration, diversity, and poverty.