Lee, New Hampshire.
Typical home $622,182 (+3.2% in a year). Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,056 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,466 +3%
- $602,716$622,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $203,355 +49%
- $418,827$622,182 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.
- Lee$3,266
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Lee, NH rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lee, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Lee is a town of 4,520 people in Strafford County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Strafford County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lee is a small New Hampshire town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and renters are few. Typical home values here run high, and household incomes sit above the county's, with very few residents living in poverty. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Strafford County, the University of New Hampshire and Wentworth Douglass Hospital are among the largest workplaces. A good number of people work from home, and those who commute face a fairly long trip. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Several rivers run in or beside town, including the North River and the Little River, and Spruce Hole Bog is a protected area close by. Lee USA Speedway, a race track, is also in or beside town. The Lamprey River and the Salmon Falls River are a short drive away. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are warm; precipitation is steady through the year.
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- 1,616households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Strafford County had 46,615 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durham Ssw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Strafford County
- University of New HampshireUniversity or college3,798
- Wentworth Douglass HospitalGeneral hospital1,929FTE
- Frisbie Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital771FTE
- Sig Sauer (Rochester)Firearms, small, manufacturing620
- Rochester School DistrictSchool district584FTE
- Dover School DistrictSchool district527FTE
- Three Phase Line ConstructionSubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction420
- Oyster River Coop School DistrictSchool district417FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,547 people in all across the county; Lee has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Strafford 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 Strafford County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Lee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lee$622,182
- 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.
- Lee14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lee6
Zip codes with a Lee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.