Henniker, New Hampshire.
Typical home $493,334 (+2.4% in a year). Concord, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,574 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,388 +2%
- $481,946$493,334 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,998 +34%
- $369,336$493,334 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.
- Henniker$2,589
- 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 Henniker, NH rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Henniker, in Merrimack County, had 3,166 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Merrimack County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Merrimack 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henniker is a small New Hampshire town with a population far younger than the county's, a sign of the college at its center. Typical home values here are high, while the county's household incomes are well above what many places see. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, and summers are pleasantly warm. Precipitation is steady through the year, much of it falling as snow in winter.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing a good share. New England College is the largest workplace in town, followed by the Weare School District and the John Stark Regional School District. Commutes are fairly short, and some residents work from home. Across Merrimack County unemployment is low, though there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Pats Peak, a ski area in or beside town, is the best-known spot for winter days outdoors. A short drive away are Lake Massasecum, a lake, and the Warner River, a river for time by the water. For a longer outing, the Currier Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 17 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Merrimack County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merrimack County had 76,521 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hopkinton Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henniker
- New England CollegeUniversity or college834
- Weare School DistrictSchool district150FTE
- John Stark Regional School DistrictSchool district104FTE
- Henniker School DistrictSchool district69FTE
- Compass Group49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 49 people in all. Colleges come 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 high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henniker’s census tracts, 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 Merrimack County and the Concord, NH metro.
Henniker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henniker$493,334
- 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.
- Henniker11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Henniker6
Zip codes with a Henniker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henniker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.