Cornish, New Hampshire.
Typical home $451,973 (+11.0% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,483 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,742 +11%
- $407,231$451,973 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $118,599 +36%
- $333,374$451,973 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.
- Cornish$2,372
- 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 Cornish, NH rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Cornish is a town of 1,616 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $91,821 a year and half less, against $80,858 across Sullivan County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cornish is a small town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, while the typical home value sits well up the scale. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Sullivan County, some of the biggest employers are Whelen Engineering Company, Sturm, Ruger & Co and Valley Regional Hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and more people work from home than you might guess for a rural town. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and job numbers have held about steady.
Things to do. Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Cornish Colony Museum. The Sugar River, also a short drive away, is a place to spend time by the water. For a bit more of a trip, Lake Sunapee and the Hood Museum of Art are a longer drive away.
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- 766households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 13,893 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 66 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. - New HampshireVehicular lighting fixtures manufacturing1,000
- Sturm, Ruger & CoGuns manufacturing719
- Claremont School DistrictSchool district328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Demoulas Super Markets275
- Valley Regional HospitalCritical access hospital265FTE
- Fall Mountain Regional School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- Newport School DistrictSchool district193FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,282 people in all across the county; Cornish has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sullivan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Sullivan County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Cornish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cornish$451,973
- 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.
- Cornish5
Zip codes with a Cornish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cornish — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.