{"id":9011,"date":"2012-05-31T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:25:02","slug":"concord-n-h-super-strong-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/05\/31\/concord-n-h-super-strong-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord, N.H. Super-Strong Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9012\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"N.H.'s 6 Micropolitan Regions\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/map-e1338487976395.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9012\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"map\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/map-e1338487976395-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/map-e1338487976395-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/map-e1338487976395.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Policom.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">N.H.&#39;s 6 Micropolitan Regions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, Concord, N.H. was ranked #1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/metro\/\" target=\"_blank\">micropolitan <\/a>economy by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> POLICOM Corporation<\/a>, a Florida-based economic research firm.<\/p>\n<p>POLICOM defines a micropolitan area as a contained economy consisting of a county or counties with a city of between 10,000 and 50,000 people. \u00a0Washington, D.C. came in first for metropolitan areas \u2014 or cities with more than 50,000 people. \u00a0StateImpact NH is based in Concord, and our first response was <em>&#8220;really?!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The answer POLICOM&#8217;s president Bill Fruth gave me was a hesitant &#8220;<em>yes<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0It turns out Concord and a few other New England counties are anomalous, in that they have very high populations spread out in the micropolitan region, surrounding a smaller city, like Concord. \u00a0Once you take that into account, Concord may not truly stack up as number one.<\/p>\n<p>How do other New Hampshire towns compare? Take a look at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policom.com\/PDFs\/2012%20EconomicStrength.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Policom&#8217;s report<\/a>, which was released earlier today. \u00a0<strong>How would you rank your town&#8217;s economy? Leave us a comment right here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Concord, N.H. was ranked #1 micropolitan economy by the POLICOM Corporation, a Florida-based economic research firm. POLICOM defines a micropolitan area as a contained economy consisting of a county or counties with a city of between 10,000 and 50,000 people. \u00a0Washington, D.C. came in first for metropolitan areas \u2014 or cities with more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[83,511,558],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}