Bristol, New Hampshire.
Typical home $405,126 (+1.1% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,386 (+187%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,278 +1%
- $400,849$405,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,575 +37%
- $295,551$405,126 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.
- Bristol$2,126
- 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 Bristol, NH rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Bristol, in Grafton County, had 1,911 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristol is a small community in Grafton County, New Hampshire, where the median resident is younger than in many New England towns. Incomes across Grafton County run a little above what is typical for the country, and a typical home here costs a good deal more than the average American house. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet climate.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership, a maker of gaskets and sealing devices, the Newfound Area School District, and Dead River Company, a fuel dealer. Unemployment across Grafton County is low, and the number of jobs there has edged up over the past year. A typical commute is fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Smith River and the Newfound River both run in or beside town, and the Fowler River is close by as well, so water is never far away. Newfound Lake is a short drive away for swimming, boating or a quiet walk along the shore. For a bigger outing, Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the best known lakes in the state, is a longer drive away.
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- 783households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
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 30° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin Falls Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bristol
- Freudenberg-NOK General PartnershipGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing312
- Newfound Area School DistrictSchool district255FTE
- Freudenberg-NOK - Bonded Piston Seals Application CenterGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing139
- Dead River CompanyFuel dealer55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 506 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Bristol’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Bristol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristol$405,126
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bristol 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.
- Bristol20.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bristol19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bristol8
Zip codes with a Bristol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.