Gorham, New Hampshire.
Typical home $247,656 (-3.0% in a year). Berlin, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$814 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,549 -3%
- $255,205$247,656 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,722 +38%
- $179,935$247,656 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.
- Gorham$1,300
- 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 Gorham, NH fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire
Gorham, in Coos County, had 1,851 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $62,679 a year and half less, against $57,677 across Coos County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Coos County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coos County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gorham is a small community in Coos County, with a smaller population than most towns people picture when they think of New England. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's, with a smaller share of people living below the poverty line than a place this far north might suggest. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, while summers are comfortably warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Coos County, some of the largest workplaces are the Omni Mount Washington Resort, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and the White Mountains Regional School District. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, the typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Moose Brook State Park and the Moose River and Peabody River are in or beside town, which makes time outdoors easy to fit into an ordinary day. A short drive away are Mount Washington State Park, a protected area built around the best known peak in the region, and the Rattle River. For a longer outing, White Mountain National Forest and Arethusa Falls, a waterfall, are a longer drive away.
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- 1,077households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Coos County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coos County had 11,730 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gorham Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coos County
- Omni Mount Washington ResortHotels, resort, without casinos880
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Androscoggin Valley HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- North Country HealthcareHospitals, general medical and surgical235
- White Mountains Regional School DistrictSchool district234FTE
- Berlin School DistrictSchool district221FTE
- Weeks Medical CenterCritical access hospital174FTE
- Morrison Hospital AssociationRest homes without nursing care140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,450 people in all across the county; Gorham has two of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gorham’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Coos County and the Berlin, NH metro.
Gorham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gorham$247,656
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gorham 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.
- Gorham32.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gorham23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gorham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gorham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.