New Hampshire County Distress Index
Financial distress scores for all 10 counties in New Hampshire, scored 0–100 across five domains. A county's score is the share of U.S. counties it is more distressed than; the average New Hampshire county scores 19.5.
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Urban Institute, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts | Scores as of Aug 2026
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Coos County is the most distressed of New Hampshire's 10 counties
County Distress Index score for New Hampshire's 10 counties, from green (least distressed, 0–29) to red (most distressed, 80–100). Data from 2024 to Aug 2026.
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County Distress Index score · data from 2024 to Aug 2026
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Score Distribution
How New Hampshire's 10 county scores are distributed across the 0–100 scale.
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10 counties ranked by distress score. Click column headers to sort.
| State Rank | Nat'l Rank | County | Score | Score Label | Primary Driver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — | Coos County | 47 | moderate-low county distress | Safety Net & Buffer |
| 2 | — | Sullivan County | 24 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 3 | — | Strafford County | 22 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 4 | — | Belknap County | 20 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 5 | — | Cheshire County | 19 | very low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 6 | — | Hillsborough County | 17 | very low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 7 | — | Carroll County | 13 | very low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 8 | — | Merrimack County | 11 | very low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 9 | — | Grafton County | 9 | exceptionally low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 10 | — | Rockingham County | 7 | exceptionally low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
How County Scores Work
Each county is scored 0–100 using five equal-weighted domains. Each domain averages its member indicators' county ranks, the domains are averaged, and that average is ranked against every U.S. county. So a county's score is the share of U.S. counties it is more distressed than. National ranks are shown only for the 100 most and 100 least distressed counties, because ranks in between move between updates. Counties with identical composite scores share a rank, marked T- for tied.
Urban Institute data: Breno Braga, Signe-Mary McKernan, Samantha Atherton, and Kassandra Martinchek, "Debt in America," last updated November 20, 2025, https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/debt-america-2025. Licensed under ODC-By 1.0. The County Distress Index is American Default Research's own calculation; the Urban Institute does not produce or endorse it.