Alton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $585,779 (+1.3% in a year). Laconia, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,917 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,301 +1%
- $578,479$585,779 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $150,360 +35%
- $435,419$585,779 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alton$3,075
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Alton, NH rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Alton, Belknap County, New Hampshire
Alton, in Belknap County, had 499 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Belknap County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Belknap County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alton is a very small community in New Hampshire's Lakes Region, where the lakes and rivers shape much of daily life. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the country, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around the freezing mark and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days and a fair amount of rain and melted snow arrives through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing many. Unemployment across Belknap County has edged lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has grown only slightly. Among the county's largest workplaces are Concord Hospital - Laconia, New Hampshire Ball Bearings and Pike Industries.
Things to do. Water is the main draw. Merrymeeting River runs in or beside town, and Merrymeeting Lake and Sunset Lake are both a short drive away. Lake Winnipesaukee, the region's best-known lake, is a longer drive away, as is New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a race track.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Belknap County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Belknap County had 25,915 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 62 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakeport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Belknap County
- Concord Hospital - LaconiaGeneral hospital727FTE
- New Hampshire Ball BearingsBall bearings manufacturing400
- Pike IndustriesAsphalt paving and installation390
- Laconia School DistrictSchool district364FTE
- Taylor CommunityContinuing care retirement communities325
- Smiths Tubular Systems - LaconiaAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing309
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- Shaker Regional School DistrictSchool district264FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,005 people in all across the county; Alton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of AltonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of AltonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Belknap County and the Laconia, NH metro.
Alton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alton$585,779
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Alton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Alton30.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alton55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alton19
Zip codes with a Alton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Alton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03809 | Alton | 3,680 | — | $530,382 |
| 03810 | Alton Bay | 2,314 | — | $678,352 |