Atkinson, New Hampshire.
Typical home $649,854 (+0.2% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,007 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,421 +0%
- $648,433$649,854 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $168,663 +35%
- $481,190$649,854 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.
- Atkinson$3,411
- 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 Atkinson, NH rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atkinson, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Atkinson is a town of 7,087 people in Rockingham County. Half its households earn more than $146,380 a year and half less, against $118,331 across Rockingham County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atkinson is a small New Hampshire town in Rockingham County where residents are older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Lewis Builders Development, Busby Construction and Life Visions. Unemployment across Rockingham County is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs at a slow pace. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute for the rest is a fairly long one.
Things to do. America's Stonehenge, an archaeological site, is in or beside town, and so is the Spicket River. A short drive away are Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park, and Ballard State Forest, a protected area for walking outdoors. Lake Cochichewick is also a short drive away if you would rather be near the water.
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- 2,945households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 157,506 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 76 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Hampstead weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atkinson
- Lewis Builders DevelopmentCondominium, single-family, construction general contractors96
- Busby ConstructionPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction80
- Life VisionsDay care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 204 people in all. 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockingham County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Rockingham County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Atkinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atkinson$649,854
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Atkinson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Atkinson20.14%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Atkinson20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Atkinson11
Zip codes with a Atkinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atkinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.