Goffstown, New Hampshire

Goffstown, New Hampshire
Town
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Location in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Coordinates: 43°01′13″N 71°36′01″W / 43.02028°N 71.60028°W / 43.02028; -71.60028
Country	United States
State	New Hampshire
County	Hillsborough
Incorporated	1761
Named for	John Goffe
Villages	Goffstown Grasmere Parker Pinardville
Government
• Select Board	Kelly Boyer, Chair Peter Georgantas Jim Craig Mark T. Lemay Collis Adams
• Town Administrator	Derek Horne
Area [1]
• Total	37.6 sq mi (97.4 km2)
• Land	37.0 sq mi (95.9 km2)
• Water	0.6 sq mi (1.5 km2)  1.57%
Elevation	308 ft (94 m)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	18,577
• Density	502/sq mi (193.8/km2)
Time zone	EST (UTC-05)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-04)
ZIP codes	03045 (Goffstown) 03102 (Manchester)
Area code	603
FIPS code	33-29860
GNIS feature ID	0873606
Website	www.goffstown.com

Goffstown is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 18,577 at the 2020 census.^[2] The compact center of town, where 3,366 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Goffstown census-designated place and is located at the junctions of New Hampshire routes 114 and 13. Goffstown also includes the villages of Grasmere and Pinardville. The town is home to Saint Anselm College (and its New Hampshire Institute of Politics), the Goffstown Giant Pumpkin Regatta, and was the location of the New Hampshire State Prison for Women, prior to the prison's relocation to Concord in 2018.