Benton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $378,895 (+1.5% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,304 (+190%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,751 +2%
- $373,144$378,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $122,969 +48%
- $255,927$378,895 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.
- Benton$1,989
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Benton, NH rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Benton, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Benton is a town of 374 people in Grafton County. Half its households earn more than $67,895 a year and half less, against $88,261 across Grafton County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Grafton County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grafton County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Benton is a very small town in Grafton County, and its population is older than in most places, with nearly every home lived in by its owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Grafton County, some of the largest workplaces are Dartmouth College, Plymouth State University and Littleton Regional Healthcare. The drive to work is a long one for many people, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Tarleton, a reservoir, and Lost River Reservation, a protected area, are both a short drive away, and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is close by as well. Franconia Notch State Park and the White Mountain National Forest are protected areas a longer drive away, for those ready to make a day of it.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Grafton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grafton County had 54,628 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 71 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton Southwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grafton County
- Dartmouth CollegeUniversity or college4,379
- Plymouth State UniversityUniversity or college645
- Littleton Regional HealthcareCritical access hospital434FTE
- New England Wire TechnologiesCopper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper419
- HyperthermPrecision turned product manufacturing408
- Alice Peck DAY Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital384FTE
- Novo Nordisk US Bio ProductionHematology products manufacturing381
- Lebanon School DistrictSchool district340FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,991 people in all across the county; Benton 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grafton 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 Grafton County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Benton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Benton$378,895
- 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.
Zip codes with a Benton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Benton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.