Haverhill IT Market Overview
The Haverhill IT Market in 2026
A Shoe City That Now Runs on Healthcare, Manufacturing and Retail
Haverhill's economy rests on healthcare, manufacturing and retail. Health Care and Social Assistance employed 6,421 Haverhill residents in 2024, ahead of Manufacturing at 4,321 and Retail Trade at 3,686, out of 35,501 employed residents. Whittier Health Network runs its headquarters at 145 Ward Hill Avenue with about 1,253 employees, Magellan Aerospace machines rotating engine shafts in the city, and Northern Essex Community College teaches roughly 5,000 credit students a semester. A median household income of $88,326 makes a full-time IT hire expensive for a 20-person firm, so local employers buy managed IT services, cybersecurity, network management and cloud services instead of hiring for them.
Four Providers Publish a Haverhill Street Address
4 of the 14 verified providers on this page publish a Haverhill street address on their own website. Resolve Data works from 10 Phoenix Row, Braided Technologies from 20 Washington Street, and NorthEast Computer Services and Tech Solutions IT from two different suites in the same building at 143 Essex Street. Osgood Unlimited titles every page of its site Haverhill, MA but publishes no street address. The other nine serve Haverhill from Salem in New Hampshire, Andover, North Andover, Lawrence, Beverly and Danvers, between 5 and 23 road miles out, and each card says which. That distance decides how fast a technician can reach your hardware, so it matters for on-site support and response times. It does not touch remote network monitoring, help desk support or patching, which a responsive provider runs the same way from Danvers as from Phoenix Row.
The Biggest Review Counts Here Belong to an HVAC Firm and a Mattress Recycler
Google returned 72 businesses for Haverhill IT queries and the four largest review counts are not IT companies. An HVAC contractor holds 897 reviews, a home health care service 557, a mattress recycler 540 and a property manager 503. The best-reviewed computer business in the set, a Plaistow custom PC shop with 166 reviews, is a consumer repair store, and a Haverhill listing with 86 reviews carries computer repair as its only Google category. A tax preparer, an educational consultant, a security guard company, a copy shop, a junk removal service and a toner cartridge supplier all surfaced too. Reading each firm's own homepage is how this page tells a managed service provider from the rest, and it is why 58 of the 72 candidates are not listed.
Three Listed Firms Share One North Andover Suite
Three of the providers below give the same address, 800 Turnpike Street, Suite 300 in North Andover. They are CMIT Solutions of The Merrimack Valley under President and CEO Armand Buonanno, OnPoint Technology Group under CEO Rageen Trivedi, and Tech Solutions IT, which also keeps the Haverhill and Woburn offices. Three separate companies share that building about 8 miles south on Route 114, and each is listed on its own. CMIT Solutions is an independently owned franchise, so this office carries its own Google rating rather than being pooled with the other CMIT Solutions locations in this directory.
Massachusetts Law Puts a Written Security Program on Every Local Employer
201 CMR 17.00 requires any business holding personal information about a Massachusetts resident to keep a written information security program, encrypt personal data on laptops and portable devices, encrypt records sent across public networks, train staff and audit the program. There is no small-business exemption; the safeguards scale to the size and resources of the business. That one regulation is why compliance support, data backup and disaster recovery and 24/7 monitoring sit on almost every provider page in this market, and why Rutter Networking, Bluebox1 and PrimiSmarts lead with SOC 2 and CMMC work. Dental practices, clinics and the suppliers feeding Magellan Aerospace carry HIPAA and CMMC obligations on top.
Office Rents Stay Low and the Stock Is Class B
Haverhill office space asked $19 to $29 per square foot across 10 listings and 618,200 square feet of inventory in 2026, and 65.85 percent of that traditional workspace is Class B with the rest Class C. No Class A tower exists here. Cheap space keeps small professional firms, clinics and light manufacturers in the city, and those are the buyers who want co-managed IT or a vCIO on retainer at a predictable monthly fee rather than a full in-house department. A 12-person practice that migrates its file server to Microsoft 365 needs a project team for six weeks, not a permanent hire. Essex County is built the same way: 11,119 of its 19,988 establishments employ 1 to 4 people and only 424 employ 100 or more.
Key Haverhill Neighborhoods / Submarkets
Downtown and Washington Square
The Highlands
Mount Washington
Riverside
Ayers Village
Ward Hill
Rocks Village
Bradford
Haverhill IT Submarkets at a Glance
Downtown Haverhill and Washington Square
The Merrimack riverfront core around City Hall at 4 Summer Street and RiverFront Park. Resolve Data works from 10 Phoenix Row, Braided Technologies from 20 Washington Street, and NorthEast Computer Services and Tech Solutions IT from suites 709 and 602 in the same building at 143 Essex Street. River Ruckus closes these streets every September.
Ward Hill and Broadway
The industrial south-east along Route 125 and the river. Whittier Health Network runs its headquarters and about 1,253 jobs from 145 Ward Hill Avenue, and the clinics and skilled-nursing sites around it hold protected health information without security teams of their own.
North Andover and Andover
South along Route 114 and Route 125, 5 to 9 road miles out. Three listed firms share 800 Turnpike Street, Suite 300; Bluebox1 is at 56 High Street in North Andover; Rutter Networking is at 10 High Street in Andover and Microtime at 40 Shattuck Road, Suite 210.
Salem, New Hampshire
Eight miles north-west across the state line on Route 97 and I-93. Harbor IT serves the Merrimack Valley from 90 Stiles Road, Suite 202, the former IT Management Solutions office, and is the only 250-plus provider in range.
Lawrence
Six miles upriver, the next Merrimack Valley mill city. PrimiSmarts Technologies is pinned by Google at 25 Marston Street, and Northern Essex Community College runs its second campus here.
Beverly and Danvers, the North Shore
South-east down Route 97 and I-95, 18 to 23 road miles. CaberLink Technologies works from 100 Cummings Center in Beverly and Kascade from 199 Rosewood Drive in Danvers; both are far enough out that on-site response belongs in writing.