Moving Your Business to the Region

Plymouth is the center for commerce and services for a local economy which includes 7 surrounding towns, with a total of more than 20,000 year-round residents. Seasonally, the area's population grows to nearly twice that size, with an influx of vacationers and second home owners.

Typically New England, the Plymouth region has a strong tradition of enterprise. Yankee ideas survive and prosper here, and small business is the most common element in the local private economy. Primarily, businesses are involved in providing services to residents and vacationing visitors who flock to to the region's ski areas, lakes, and mountains. Local manufacturing firms are tied to the area's most natural resource, timber. Businesses find that the availability of excellent roads to nearby metropolitan areas afford easy access to markets, while the community itself attracts and keeps important human resources.

Central New Hampshire has a strong component of construction trades involved in building both primary and secondary residences and institutional buildings. In recent years, Plymouth has added a number of new facilities to its inventory of major buildings: Pease Public Library, Silver Cultural Arts Center, the Senior Center renovation of the former railroad station and a new elementary school complex. These projects have both provided employment and added to the appeal of the Plymouth area as a regional center of commerce.

Plymouth State University of the University System of New Hampshire, with a teaching and support staff of about 700, is the area's largest employer. PSU has been recognized as one of the country's "Best Buys"in education and has succeeded in growing during the past few years even when most college enrollments are in decline.

This major component in the local economy makes the Plymouth region a stable business environment, with consumer tastes that reflect the wide-ranging interests of the college community. Situated right in the village of Plymouth, the university supports a vital mix of retail, service and entertainment businesses.

Business Resources Links:

Town of Plymouth, New Hampshire
Grafton County Economic Development Council
NH Small Business Development Center
State of NH Business Information