Lempster, New Hampshire.
Typical home $323,251 (+3.4% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,100 (+185%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,666 +3%
- $312,585$323,251 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,307 +38%
- $234,944$323,251 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.
- Lempster$1,697
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lempster, NH rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lempster, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Lempster is a town of 1,118 people in Sullivan County. Half its households earn more than $86,607 a year and half less, against $80,858 across Sullivan County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 2.4% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lempster is a small town in Sullivan County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural town. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and July is the warmest, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also well represented. Across Sullivan County, some of the largest workplaces are Whelen Engineering, Sturm, Ruger & Co and the Claremont School District. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and commutes tend to be long, with few people working from home.
Things to do. Pillsbury State Park is a protected area just a short drive away, and the West Branch Warner River is also close by. Farther afield, Lake Sunapee is a longer drive, as is Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, another protected area. These give residents lakes, rivers and woodland to enjoy through the seasons.
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- 337households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 13,893 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 85 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Sunapee weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. - New HampshireVehicular lighting fixtures manufacturing1,000
- Sturm, Ruger & CoGuns manufacturing719
- Claremont School DistrictSchool district328FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Demoulas Super Markets275
- Valley Regional HospitalCritical access hospital265FTE
- Fall Mountain Regional School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- Newport School DistrictSchool district193FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,282 people in all across the county; Lempster has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sullivan County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Sullivan County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Lempster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lempster$323,251
- 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.
- Lempster9
Zip codes with a Lempster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lempster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.