Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
Typical home $600,916 (+1.1% in a year). Concord, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,912 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,429 +1%
- $594,486$600,916 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,454 +32%
- $454,462$600,916 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.
- Dunbarton$3,154
- 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 Dunbarton, NH rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Dunbarton is a town of 3,005 people in Merrimack County. Half its households earn more than $124,348 a year and half less, against $97,004 across Merrimack County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Merrimack County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunbarton is a small New Hampshire town where almost everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be older than in many places, and fewer households live below the poverty line than across the county. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing highs, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Merrimack County, some of the largest workplaces are Concord Hospital, New England College and the Concord School District. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Clough State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Penacook Lake and the Warner and Suncook rivers, which suit time outdoors near the water. For a day out, the Currier Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 1,194households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merrimack County had 76,521 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weare weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Merrimack County
- Concord HospitalGeneral hospital2,846FTE
- New England CollegeUniversity or college834
- Concord School DistrictSchool district816FTE
- GE Aviation762
- The Granite Group WholesalersPlumbing equipment merchant wholesalers739
- New Hampshire HospitalPsychiatric hospital661FTE
- Granite State Independent LivingHome care of elderly, non-medical595
- Demoulas Super Markets513
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 207 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,351 people in all across the county; Dunbarton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Merrimack 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 Merrimack County and the Concord, NH metro.
Dunbarton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunbarton$600,916
- 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.
- Dunbarton12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dunbarton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunbarton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.