Freedom, New Hampshire.
Typical home $468,325 (+8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,504 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,486 +8%
- $432,839$468,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,212 +17%
- $401,113$468,325 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.
- Freedom$2,458
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Freedom, NH rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freedom, Carroll County, New Hampshire
Freedom is a town of 1,689 people in Carroll County. Half its households earn more than $66,136 a year and half less, against $86,463 across Carroll County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freedom is a small town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, and the people who live here are older than in most of the country. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes sell for more than the typical income in town might suggest, since household incomes here run below the county's. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are mild and warm. Precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in government, or in professional and business services. Across Carroll County, some of the largest workplaces are the Governor Wentworth Regional School District, Huggins Hospital and Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is low and has edged down over the past year, and a fair number of people in town work from home. A typical commute is a little longer than a short drive.
Things to do. Broad Bay, a lake in or beside town, and King Pine, a ski area also in or beside town, are the closest places to get outdoors. A short drive away are Ossipee Lake and the Ossipee River, good for time on the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the best known lakes in the state.
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- 714households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 20,096 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 55°. About 83 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tamworth weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Governor Wentworth Regional School DistrictSchool district490FTE
- Huggins HospitalCritical access hospital427FTE
- Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital337FTE
- Demoulas Super Markets286
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Conway School DistrictSchool district258FTE
- New Hampshire GroupCasinos159
- CM ResortFour season ski resorts without accommodations157
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,811 people in all across the county; Freedom has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Carroll 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 Carroll County.
Freedom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freedom$468,325
- 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.
- Freedom15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Freedom7
Zip codes with a Freedom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freedom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.