Hanover, New Hampshire.
Typical home $997,564 (+7.3% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,221 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $67,619 +7%
- $929,945$997,564 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $300,324 +43%
- $697,240$997,564 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.
- Hanover$5,236
- 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 Hanover, NH rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Hanover, in Grafton County, had 9,078 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $153,281 a year and half less, against $88,261 across Grafton County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanover is a small college town in Grafton County, and it feels like one: the residents are far younger than in most American towns, and nearly all adults have a four-year degree. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are high, with most homes lived in by their owners and a good number rented. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Hanover include the Dresden School District, the Hanover School District and the Hanover Food Store. Unemployment across Grafton County is low and a little lower than a year earlier, and the typical commute is short. A good share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Green is a park in the middle of town, and the Hood Museum of Art, an art museum, is in or beside town as well. The Montshire Museum of Science is a science museum close by. For a day out, Enfield Shaker Museum and Quechee State Park are each a short drive away.
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- 2,171households
- 89%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents 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 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 61 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hanover weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hanover
- Dresden School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- Hanover School DistrictSchool district103FTE
- Hanover Food StoreCommissaries, primarily groceries94
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 94 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
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of HanoverRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HanoverRelatively 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 Hanover’s census tracts, 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 Grafton County and the Lebanon, NH-VT metro.
Hanover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanover$997,564
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hanover 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.
- Hanover20.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hanover32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hanover8
Zip codes with a Hanover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hanover
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03755 | Hanover | 10,569 | — | $976,651 |
| 03750 | Etna | 1,116 | — | $1,096,012 |