Barrington, New Hampshire.
Typical home $579,136 (+1.8% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,861 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,086 +2%
- $569,050$579,136 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $167,422 +41%
- $411,714$579,136 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.
- Barrington$3,040
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Barrington, NH rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Barrington is a town of 9,326 people in Strafford County. Half its households earn more than $110,323 a year and half less, against $88,570 across Strafford County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Strafford County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barrington is a small New Hampshire town where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents are fairly young for a place of homeowners, and a good share hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and precipitation falls throughout the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also common. The biggest workplaces in town include Turbocam, a manufacturer, along with the Barrington School District and Yankee Equipment Systems. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Swains Lake, a reservoir in or beside town, is the closest water, and Berrys River also runs in or beside town. A short drive away is Mendums Pond, a lake. For a longer outing, Pawtuckaway State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 3,467households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Strafford County had 46,615 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durham North weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barrington
- TurbocamGasoline engines, aircraft, manufacturing351
- Barrington School DistrictSchool district147FTE
- Yankee Equipment SystemsLaundry machinery, equipment, and supplies, commercial, merchant wholesalers51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 402 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Strafford County, 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 Strafford County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Barrington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barrington$579,136
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Barrington 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.
- Barrington22.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Barrington30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Barrington13
Zip codes with a Barrington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barrington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.