New London, New Hampshire.
Typical home $697,449 (+2.1% in a year). Concord, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,164 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,326 +2%
- $683,123$697,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $153,932 +28%
- $543,517$697,449 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.
- New London$3,661
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in New London, NH rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New London, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
New London, in Merrimack County, had 1,266 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Merrimack County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Merrimack County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New London is a small New Hampshire town in Merrimack County, home to a college community that gives it a much younger population than you would expect from a town of its size. Homes here are valued well above what is typical, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and pleasant, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. The largest workplaces in town include the Kearsarge Regional School District, Colby-Sawyer College and Woodcrest Village. Across Merrimack County, unemployment has edged down over the past year, though the county has a slightly smaller number of jobs than it did a year earlier, and a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Pleasant Lake is in or beside town, and Little Sunapee Lake is close by as well, both good for time on the water. A short drive away are Lake Sunapee, a large lake, and Wadleigh State Park, a protected area. For a longer outing, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Merrimack County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merrimack County had 76,521 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New London
- Kearsarge Regional School DistrictSchool district361FTE
- Colby-Sawyer CollegeUniversity or college356
- Woodcrest VillageAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities67
- Parkhurst DiningFood service contractors36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 103 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New London’s census tracts, 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 Merrimack County and the Concord, NH metro.
New London home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New London$697,449
- New Hampshire$510,937
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 New London 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.
- New London32.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- New London24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- New London8
Zip codes with a New London address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New London — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.