Exeter, New Hampshire.
Typical home $609,503 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $2,552 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,855 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,333 +4%
- $588,170$609,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $161,836 +36%
- $447,667$609,503 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.
- Exeter$3,199
- 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 Exeter, NH rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Exeter, in Rockingham County, had 10,109 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $87,346 a year and half less, against $118,331 across Rockingham County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Exeter is a small New Hampshire town in Rockingham County, with residents who skew older than much of the country and a large share holding a four-year degree. Incomes sit below the county's, and homes here are lived in by their owners more often than not, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Exeter include Exeter Hospital and the Exeter Region Cooperative School District, along with Osram Opto-Semiconductor. Unemployment across Rockingham County has eased a little from a year earlier, and a notable number of residents work from home, while the usual commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. In town, the American Independence Museum is a short trip, and the Exeter River and the Little River run in or beside Exeter. A short drive away, the Lamprey River and the Powwow River offer more riverside ground to explore. For a longer outing, America's Stonehenge is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 4,529households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 157,506 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 65 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenland weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Exeter
- Exeter HospitalGeneral hospital1,256FTE
- Exeter Region Cooperative School DistrictSchool district353FTE
- Osram Opto-SemiconductorLight emitting diodes manufacturing241
- HannafordGrocery stores226
- Exeter School DistrictSchool district211FTE
- Virtual Learning Academy Charter SchoolSchool district160FTE
- Stratham School DistrictSchool district81FTE
- Brentwood School DistrictSchool district66FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,489 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ExeterRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Exeter’s census tracts, 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 Rockingham County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Exeter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Exeter$609,503
- 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 5 Exeter listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Exeter20.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Exeter43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Exeter18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Exeter$531,253
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Exeter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Exeter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.