About
An independent site tracking public data about the City of Manchester. Not run by or affiliated with the city.
Part of Publick
Manchester Publick is one of the Publick sites, which publish the public record of towns and cities every day. The name comes from Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper in the American colonies. It was printed in Boston in 1690 and shut down after one issue for printing without permission.
How it works
- Updated every morning from public sources.
- Every number links to where it came from.
- New agendas and minutes are in an RSS feed.
- Summaries written by AI are labeled on each meeting page.
- Mistakes are corrected openly, with a note on the page.
Sources
- 311 requests: SeeClickFix (opens in new tab), public requests only, under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (opens in new tab) license. How the 311 numbers work.
- Meetings, agendas, and minutes: the city's calendar (opens in new tab) and its meeting portal (opens in new tab) (CivicClerk). Agendas and minutes of the meetings on the portal are saved when posted, from January 2026 on; other meetings link to their agendas where the city posts them.
- Tax rate and property tax: the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration (opens in new tab)'s municipal tax rates and tax rate calculations. The average single-family tax bill is calculated by Publick from the tax rate and assessed values on NH GRANIT's statewide parcel map (opens in new tab), and property tax per resident from the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates (opens in new tab); the budget page says how. The adopted budget is from the city's Budget Info page (opens in new tab).
- Unemployment: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in new tab). City rates aren't seasonally adjusted, so each month is compared with the same month last year.
- Schools: the New Hampshire Department of Education (opens in new tab)'s graduation rates, state test (NH SAS) results, and cost per pupil reports.
- Housing: U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (opens in new tab) and American Community Survey (opens in new tab) (through Census Reporter (opens in new tab)).
- Elected officials: listed by hand from official city and school websites, last checked October 1, 2026. See Who represents you.
- Ward maps: NH GRANIT (opens in new tab), 2022 boundaries.
- Street maps: OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab), drawn with Leaflet (opens in new tab). Map images load from OpenStreetMap's servers.
Data status
Each source, the latest figures this site has, and when it last checked. Meetings and requests are checked every day. Figures that are published monthly or yearly are checked weekly or monthly, and are marked "Behind" only when newer figures should have been published by now; the maintainer is alerted automatically.
| Source | Latest | Last checked | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings (city calendar and CivicClerk) | – | Up to date | |
| 311 requests | – | Up to date | |
| 311 scorecard | – | Up to date | |
| Tax bill (calculated) | Tax year 2025 | Up to date. Next: Tax year 2026 usually by February 1, 2027. | |
| City budget | Fiscal year 2027 city budget; Tax year 2025 tax rates | Up to date. Next: Fiscal year 2028 city budget usually by July 1, 2027; Tax year 2026 tax rates usually by February 1, 2027. | |
| School figures | Class of 2025 graduation rate; Spring 2026 state test results; 2024–25 cost per pupil | Up to date. Next: Class of 2026 graduation rate usually by June 1, 2027; Spring 2027 state test results usually by October 1, 2027; 2025–26 cost per pupil usually by February 1, 2027. | |
| Unemployment rate (BLS) | July 2026 rate | Up to date. Next: August 2026 rate usually by October 10, 2026. | |
| Housing figures | 2025 building permits; August 2026 building permits; ACS 2024 5-year estimates | Up to date. Next: 2026 building permits usually by June 1, 2027; September 2026 building permits usually by November 1, 2026; ACS 2025 5-year estimates usually by December 15, 2026. | |
| Meeting summaries | – | – | Up to date |
AI summaries
Meeting summaries are written by AI (Claude Sonnet 5, by Anthropic). They aren't checked by a person before posting. The city's document is the official record, and every summary links to it.
Scanned agendas and minutes, which screen readers can't read, get a readable version of their full text, transcribed by AI and labeled that way. Where a document's own text can be laid out, the full text is the city's own words instead. Every page links the city's PDF.
Privacy
We count visits so we know which pages are useful. That's all.
- No cookies, no ads, and no tracking across other sites.
- What you search for, and which street you look up, is never recorded.
- If you use "Find my ward," your location is checked on your device. It isn't sent anywhere or saved.
- Nothing that identifies you is kept, not even your IP address.
Counting is done by GoatCounter (opens in new tab), a privacy-friendly service. It notes the page, the site that linked here, and your screen size, along with the browser type and rough location (such as the country or state) that every website can see. We only look at the totals.
Corrections and contact
Spot a mistake or have a question? Email manchester-nh@publick.org or open an issue on the project's public issue tracker (opens in new tab). Fixes are noted on the page they affect.