Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Typical home $405,041 (+1.0% in a year). Keene, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,358 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,206 +1%
- $400,836$405,041 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $131,031 +48%
- $274,010$405,041 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.
- Fitzwilliam$2,126
- 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 Fitzwilliam, NH rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Fitzwilliam, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Fitzwilliam is a town of 2,351 people in Cheshire County. Half its households earn more than $100,735 a year and half less, against $83,329 across Cheshire County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Cheshire County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cheshire County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fitzwilliam is a small New Hampshire town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is older than in much of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm in July. Rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Cheshire County, some of the largest workplaces are Cheshire Medical Center, Keene State College and Keene School District. The typical commute is long, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Rhododendron State Park, a botanical garden in or beside town, is the nearest place for a walk among the blooms. A short drive away are Royalston Falls, a waterfall, and Tully Lake, a reservoir. For something further afield, the Fitchburg Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 934households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Cheshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cheshire County had 30,753 jobs in 2025, 1.2% 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 59°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jaffrey Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cheshire County
- EMD MilliporeLaboratory analytical instruments manufacturing989
- Cheshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital737FTE
- Keene State CollegeUniversity or college619
- Franklin Pierce UniversityUniversity or college608
- Keene School DistrictSchool district606FTE
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Keene - Corporate Dr470
- CS Wholesale Grocers : Keene - Optical Ave412
- Dartmouth Hitchcock KeenePhysicians' offices411
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,030 people in all across the county; Fitzwilliam 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cheshire 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 Cheshire County and the Keene, NH metro.
Fitzwilliam home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fitzwilliam$405,041
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fitzwilliam listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fitzwilliam17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fitzwilliam6
Zip codes with a Fitzwilliam address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fitzwilliam — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.