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Insurance agencies in the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area
How the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 56 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #150 of 387 scored metro areas
The only scored metro area based in New Hampshire
- Listings
- 193
- 37 chain locations (19%)
- Official establishments
- 131
- −12.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $283.4M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,679 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.5M
- 17% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.4
- 27% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 433,415
- +2.5% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Manchester-Nashua metro area spend about $283.4M a year on vehicle insurance, or $1,679 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. Spread across 193 insurance agencies, that is $1.5M per agency, 17% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The Manchester-Nashua metro area has 193 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 19% of them, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 11.4, 27% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Manchester-Nashua metro area was 131 in 2023, down 12.1% from 2019. That is one for every 1,288 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 7 SBA-backed loans worth $2.7M have gone to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Manchester-Nashua metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Manchester-Nashua metro area grew 2.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for insurance agencies in the Manchester-Nashua metro area is 56 (upper middle), #150 of 387 scored metro areas and the only scored metro area based in New Hampshire.
How the Manchester-Nashua metro area compares
The same measures for New Hampshire and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Manchester-Nashua metro area | New Hampshire | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 11.4 | 10.8 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $1.5M | $1.6M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,288 | 1,317 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −12.1% | −8.1% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.5% | +2.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,679 | $1,712 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $103,545 | $99,031 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 56 | 65 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 131−12.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,158
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $137.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 19337 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 226The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 7
- Amount
- $2.7M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Manchester-Nashua metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Manchester-Nashua metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 433,415+2.5% since 2020
- Households
- 168,740
- Median age
- 42.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 67%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 877 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 486
- Median household income
- $103,545+27.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $132,601
- Median home value
- $421,100
- Jobs located here
- 221,067
- Daytime population
- 417,173Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every New Hampshire market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in New Hampshire for insurance agencies, numbered among those based in New Hampshire (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Manchester-Nashua metro area marked.
Top metro areas in New Hampshire
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Manchester-Nashua, NH | 56 | 193 | 11.4 | $1.5M | +2.5% | #150 of 387 |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | 45 | 2,129 | 11.0 | $1.3M | +2.3% | #217 of 387 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 193 insurance agencies in the Manchester-Nashua metro area. 37 of them (19%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 131 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023, down 12.1% from 2019.
How much do households in the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area spend on vehicle insurance?
About $283.4M a year, or $1,679 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 193 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $1.5M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 168,740 households in the Manchester-Nashua metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
The Manchester-Nashua metro area has 11.4 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $1.5M, 17% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, the Manchester-Nashua metro area would have about 226, against 193 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,288 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. The official count fell 12.1% from 2019 to 2023, against −1.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Manchester-Nashua metro area at 433,415 people in 2025, up 2.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 168,740 households. Median household income in the Manchester-Nashua metro area is $103,545, 28% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.1%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Manchester-Nashua metro area scores 56 for insurance agencies (upper middle), #150 of 387 scored metro areas.
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