Bennington, New Hampshire.
Typical home $334,665 (-0.1% in a year). Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,096 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $382 -0%
- $335,046$334,665 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,046 +36%
- $246,619$334,665 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.
- Bennington$1,757
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Bennington, NH fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bennington, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Bennington, in Hillsborough County, had 338 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $74,125 a year and half less, against $103,545 across Hillsborough County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Hillsborough County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hillsborough County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bennington is a very small New Hampshire community, among the smallest of towns, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit at a level many would find within reach by the standards of the wider region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Hillsborough County, the largest workplaces include Southern New Hampshire University, Catholic Medical Center and Elliot Hospital. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, though unemployment remains low.
Things to do. Powder Mill Pond is a lake in or beside town, handy for a walk or a quiet afternoon by the water. A short drive away are Greenfield State Park, a protected area, and Willard Pond, another lake. For an indoor outing, the Currier Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Hillsborough County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hillsborough County had 199,383 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer 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 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weare Northeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillsborough County
- Southern New Hampshire UniversityUniversity or college14,416
- Catholic Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,136FTE
- BAE SystemsMicrowave components manufacturing2,125
- Elliot HospitalGeneral hospital2,110FTE
- Manchester School DistrictSchool district1,826FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,246
- Southern NH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,083FTE
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing1,042
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 420 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,012 people in all across the county; Bennington has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bennington’s census tracts, 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 Hillsborough County and the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
Bennington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bennington$334,665
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bennington7
Zip codes with a Bennington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bennington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.