Hooksett, New Hampshire.
Typical home $523,887 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,233 . Concord, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,654 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,439 +2%
- $512,448$523,887 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $149,880 +40%
- $374,007$523,887 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.
- Hooksett$2,750
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Hooksett, NH rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hooksett, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Hooksett, in Merrimack County, had 5,283 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $101,053 a year and half less, against $97,004 across Merrimack County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hooksett is a small town along the Merrimack River, with a population that skews older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's, with few residents living below the poverty line. Homes here cost a good deal to buy, and rents are high too. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Among the larger workplaces in town are Al Terry Plumbing & Heating, a plumbing and heating contractor, and the New Hampshire Hockey Club, which runs ice skating rinks. A fair number of people work from home, and a typical commute is on the long side. Across Merrimack County, jobs slipped slightly last year, while unemployment stayed low and has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Suncook River runs in or beside town, and Bear Brook State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Currier Museum of Art is also a short drive away, and farther afield, a longer drive brings you to New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a race track.
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- 2,428households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 59°. About 68 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Concord Municipal Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hooksett
- Al Terry Plumbing & HeatingPlumbing and heating contractors55
- New Hampshire Hockey ClubIce skating rinks45
- Sullivan Tire - BowAutomotive tire dealers28
- Alta Enterprises LLC- HooksettIndustrial truck repair and maintenance services26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 154 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of HooksettRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hooksett’s census tracts, 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 Merrimack County and the Concord, NH metro.
Hooksett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hooksett$523,887
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Hooksett listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Hooksett13.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hooksett10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hooksett33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hooksett19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hooksett$459,656
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hooksett100.42%
Zip codes with a Hooksett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hooksett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.