Hampstead, New Hampshire.
Typical home $618,440 (+5.6% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,968 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,897 +6%
- $585,543$618,440 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $153,928 +33%
- $464,513$618,440 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.
- Hampstead$3,246
- 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 Hampstead, NH rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Hampstead is a town of 8,998 people in Rockingham County. Half its households earn more than $112,348 a year and half less, against $118,331 across Rockingham County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampstead is a small town in southern New Hampshire where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, though poverty is uncommon, and typical home values are high. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, as well as in professional and business services, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Hampstead School District, Hannaford and Hampstead Hospital. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Island Pond, a lake in or beside town, is the closest spot for time near the water. A short drive away are Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park, and America's Stonehenge, an archaeological site. Ballard State Forest, a protected area also a short drive away, is a place for walking among the trees.
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- 3,639households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 21%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 34° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 76 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Hampstead weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampstead
- Hampstead School DistrictSchool district192FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores175
- Hampstead HospitalPsychiatric hospital135FTE
- East Coast Lumber & Building Supply Company CoHome centers, building materials108
- NCAB Group, USACircuit boards, printed, bare, manufacturing93
- Z-Golf Food & Beverage ServicesBanquet halls with catering staff37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 548 people in all. 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockingham County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Hampstead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hampstead$618,440
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hampstead 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.
- Hampstead23.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hampstead26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hampstead12
Zip codes with a Hampstead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampstead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hampstead
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03841 | Hampstead | 6,508 | — | $635,509 |
| 03826 | East Hampstead | 2,654 | — | $581,290 |