States · New Hampshire · Grafton County

Littleton, New Hampshire.

Typical home $354,854 (-0.5% in a year). Lebanon, NH-VT metro.

What it costs per month · Littleton $1,863/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,144 (+159%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $1,832 -1%
$356,686$354,854 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $91,342 +35%
$263,512$354,854 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Littleton $1,863 New Hampshire $2,682 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Littleton$1,863
  • New Hampshire$2,682
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.

Typical home values in Littleton, NH fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Littleton, Grafton County, New Hampshire

Littleton, in Grafton County, had 4,467 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $53,082 a year and half less, against $88,261 across Grafton County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 40% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 60% 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 shops.

People 4,467 in the 2020 census
Household income $53,082 the median, give or take $5,155 · Grafton County: $88,261
Unemployment 2.5% Grafton County, August 2026; 2.9% a year before
Homes 40% lived in by their owners; 60% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Littleton is a small community where most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners, a different balance from much of the country. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are the Littleton School District, the Littleton Consumer Cooperative and the Veterans Health Administration. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Grafton County is low and has slipped a little over the past year.

Things to do. The White Mountain National Forest, a large protected area, and Franconia Notch State Park are both a longer drive away. Closer to town, the Gale River and Moore Reservoir are a short drive away for time by the water. Profile Lake, also a longer drive, is another quiet spot to visit.

Report a mistake
  • 2,038households
  • 24%of adults have a degree
  • 16%below the poverty line
  • 12 mintypical commute
  • 10%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Shops (retail)15%
  • Manufacturing15%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment13%
  • Wholesale8%
  • Professional and business services7%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 28° and 3°; warmest in July, 80° and 53° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 3° F M A M J J 80° 53° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 28° and 3°; warmest in July, 80° and 53° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 28° 3° F M A M J J 80° 53° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 53°. About 101 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bethlehem weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Littleton

  1. Littleton School DistrictSchool district151FTE
  2. Littleton Consumer CooperativeGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers110
  3. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs25
  4. Littleton MillworkHousing, single-family, construction general contractors24
  5. LittletonMail and parcel delivery21

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 155 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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

  1. Winter weatherRelatively high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. LightningRelatively high
  4. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  5. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  6. Cold wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Littleton’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.

Littleton home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Littleton $354,854 New Hampshire $510,937 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Littleton$354,854
  • New Hampshire$510,937
  • United States$366,157

Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Littleton 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.

JFMAMJJASOND
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

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.

15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 2026 Littleton 37.16% United States 26.90%
15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 2026
  • Littleton37.16%
  • United States26.90%

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 10 15 20 25 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Littleton 28
5 10 15 20 25 2022 2024 2026
  • Littleton28

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

4 6 8 2026 Littleton 9
4 6 8 2026
  • Littleton9

Zip codes with a Littleton address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Littleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Littleton