Hudson, New Hampshire.
Typical home $534,215 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $2,450 . Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,606 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,918 +1%
- $529,297$534,215 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,931 +30%
- $410,283$534,215 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.
- Hudson$2,804
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Hudson, NH rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hudson, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Hudson, in Hillsborough County, had 7,534 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $95,842 a year and half less, against $103,545 across Hillsborough County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Hillsborough County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hudson is a small New Hampshire community along the Merrimack River valley, with a population on the older side and incomes a little below those across Hillsborough County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, and professional and business services. In town, the largest workplaces include the Hudson School District, Hannaford and Teledyne FLIR Hudson. Commutes are on the long side, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Greeley Park is a garden and Benson's Wild Animal Farm is an amusement park, and Salmon Brook runs nearby. A short drive away are Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park, and Mine Falls Park, a park with riverside paths. For a longer outing, the Currier Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 3,191households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hillsborough County had 199,383 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 67 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hudson Sse weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hudson
- Hudson School DistrictSchool district482FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores179
- Teledyne FLIR HudsonRectifiers, semiconductor, manufacturing150
- RdFInstruments for industrial process control manufacturing52
- Granite State Glass, Burlington Glass Center and American Plate and Auto GlassCurtain wall, glass, installation21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 402 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Hudson’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 Hillsborough County and the Manchester-Nashua, NH metro.
Hudson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hudson$534,215
- 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 5 Hudson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hudson20.70%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hudson8
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hudson50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hudson31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hudson$547,185
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hudson102.40%
Zip codes with a Hudson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hudson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.