New Hampshire Residents Like Their Casinos (Part I)

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis has done a study pertaining to the amount of trips that New Hampshire residents make to the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos. They have found that within the past twelve months alone, residents have taken almost a half of a million trips to the slot machine casinos. The survey is part of a larger survey that is trying to find out how New Englanders feel about the slot machines and casinos.

New Hampshire residents make up approximately 3% of the Foxwoods customers, and 2% of the Mohegan Sun’s customers. They also found that of those trips, 92% of them were made by those more than 30 years of age. One in five residents surveyed said that they had been to one of the two casinos within the past year. Roughly 62% of those visitors were women, and 38% were men.

The survey shows that not only are most New Hampshire residents pro-gambling, they would welcome slot machines and gambling in their own state. It also determined that they would continue to go across the state line until they were legalized in the state itself. They would also go to Massachusetts or Rhode Island if those states decided to legalize the slot machines as well.

New Hampshire’s gamblers are educated as well. Roughly 71% of those gambling have a bachelor’s degree or higher – which makes them the highest number of educated gamblers out of the four states that were surveyed: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire. At least 83% had some college experience even if they did not have a diploma.

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