Lincoln, New Hampshire.
Typical home $486,143 (+2.6% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,688 (+195%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,218 +3%
- $473,925$486,143 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $137,544 +39%
- $348,599$486,143 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.
- Lincoln$2,552
- 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 Lincoln, NH rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lincoln, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Lincoln, in Grafton County, had 969 people in the 2020 census. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Grafton County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grafton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lincoln is a small mountain community on the edge of the White Mountains, home to fewer people than most towns its age. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values run high for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant in July. Rain and melted snow are plentiful across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Grafton County, some of the largest workplaces are Dartmouth College, Plymouth State University and Littleton Regional Healthcare. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has grown slightly.
Things to do. Flume Gorge, a waterfall and gorge, and Clark's Bears, a tourist attraction, are both in or beside town, along with the White Mountain Central Railroad, a museum. Franconia Notch State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. White Mountain National Forest, a much larger protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Grafton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grafton County had 54,628 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln Nepp weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grafton County
- Dartmouth CollegeUniversity or college4,379
- Plymouth State UniversityUniversity or college645
- Littleton Regional HealthcareCritical access hospital434FTE
- New England Wire TechnologiesCopper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper419
- HyperthermPrecision turned product manufacturing408
- Alice Peck DAY Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital384FTE
- Novo Nordisk US Bio ProductionHematology products manufacturing381
- Lebanon School DistrictSchool district340FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 104 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,991 people in all across the county; Lincoln has two 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lincoln’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Grafton County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Lincoln home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lincoln$486,143
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lincoln listings — 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.
- Lincoln18.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lincoln55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lincoln10
Zip codes with a Lincoln address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lincoln — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.