Jefferson, New Hampshire.
Typical home $345,091 (-0.2% in a year). Berlin, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,149 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $646 -0%
- $345,738$345,091 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,037 +40%
- $246,054$345,091 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.
- Jefferson$1,811
- 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 Jefferson, NH fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jefferson, Coos County, New Hampshire
Jefferson is a town of 1,043 people in Coos County. Half its households earn more than $67,188 a year and half less, against $57,677 across Coos County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jefferson is a small town in Coos County, in the northern part of the White Mountains region. The people who live here are older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and the share of people living below the poverty line is modest. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, while summers are mild and pleasant, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Coos County, some of the largest workplaces are Omni Mount Washington Resort, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and the White Mountains Regional School District. The commute is a long one for many people, and a good number work from home. Job numbers across the county dipped a little over the past year, and unemployment there has stayed low.
Things to do. Santa's Village, an amusement park, is in or beside town, which makes it the easiest outing from home. The Israel River is a short drive away for time by the water. For a longer day out, White Mountain National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and Franconia Notch State Park is another, with mountain scenery to match.
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- 518households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents 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 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 95 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jefferson weather station, 2 miles 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; Jefferson has none 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Coos County, 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 Coos County and the Berlin, NH metro.
Jefferson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jefferson$345,091
- 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.
- Jefferson10
Zip codes with a Jefferson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jefferson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.